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County annual report · FIPS 06037

2022 Los Angeles County, CA Power Outage Report

In 2022, customers in Los Angeles County, CA went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 15.9M customer-hours (California average 4.9 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 57 California counties and 1590th of 2,976 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
4.2
3,762,600 customers
Customer-hours out
15.9M
Peak customers out
93,099
Outages ≥1,000 out
5
5 of 10,000+ · 5 total
Longest outage
214d 10h
began May 31, 2022
Rank in state
38th/57
1590th of 2,976 US

Compared with CA, the US and 2021

Los Angeles County, CA average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2022Los Angeles County 4.2 hours, California average 4.9 hours, US average 8.3 hours, Los Angeles County, 2021 3.8 hoursLos Angeles CountyLos Angeles County4.2hCalifornia averageCalifornia average4.9hUS averageUS average8.3hLos Angeles County, 2021Los Angeles County, …3.8h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2022; last bar is this county in 2021.

Month by month

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Los Angeles County, CA customer-hours without power by month, 2022Jan 1.9M, Feb 903K, Mar 1.1M, Apr 1.1M, May 1.0M, Jun 1.4M, Jul 1.2M, Aug 1.3M, Sep 2.4M, Oct 1.0M, Nov 1.4M, Dec 1.4M01M2M3M1.9MJan903KFeb1.1MMar1.1MApr1.0MMay1.4MJun1.2MJul1.3MAug2.4MSep1.0MOct1.4MNov1.4MDec
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Customer-hours; September was the worst month.

Los Angeles County year over year

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Los Angeles County, CA: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 5.4h; 2016: 3.0h; 2017: 3.6h; 2018: 4.1h, coverage 91%; 2019: 3.6h, coverage 93%; 2020: 3.7h, coverage 94%; 2021: 3.8h, coverage 95%; 2022: 4.2h, coverage 95%; 2023: 4.7h; 2024: 3.4h; 2025: 10.2h0510150%50%100%5.4h20153.0h20163.6h20174.1h20183.6h20193.7h20203.8h20214.2h20224.7h20233.4h202410.2h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Los Angeles County, 2022

The 5 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1May 31, 2022 13:30January 1, 2023 00:00214d 10h93,09910.0M
2March 25, 2022 13:15April 30, 2022 08:4535d 19h49,9641.4M
3May 18, 2022 14:15May 31, 2022 10:0012d 19h48,261449K
4January 1, 2022 00:00March 25, 2022 11:1583d 11h35,4993.6M
5April 30, 2022 10:30May 18, 2022 12:3018d 2h28,868580K

Outage episodes by size in 2022: 5 reached 100+ customers, 5 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 reached 10,000+ customers.

Utility reliability filed with the EIA

SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Los Angeles County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
Southern California Edison Co20222.2 hrs1.081.7 hrs0.96
Los Angeles Department of Water & Power20221.8 hrs0.741.8 hrs0.74
City of Pasadena - (CA)202226 min0.2226 min0.22
City of Vernon201342 min0.7737 min0.46
City of Azusa-----
City of Burbank Water and Power-----
City of Glendale - (CA)-----

About this data

  • Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 95% of California's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
  • Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,762,600 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
  • An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
  • Years loaded: 2015–2025. Los Angeles County has data for 2015–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Los Angeles County, CA annual power outage report, 2022, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2022/california/los-angeles-county

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