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2022 Merced County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Merced County, CA went without power for an average of 7.2 hours, a total of 406K customer-hours (California average 4.9 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 57 California counties and 1004th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Merced County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 10, 2022 15:15 | December 13, 2022 06:15 | 2d 15h | 19,037 | 101K |
| 2 | August 2, 2022 14:45 | August 5, 2022 09:15 | 2d 18h | 6,465 | 25K |
| 3 | September 18, 2022 19:30 | September 20, 2022 05:45 | 1d 10h | 3,432 | 19K |
| 4 | October 1, 2022 23:15 | October 2, 2022 00:15 | 1h | 3,409 | 2,320 |
| 5 | June 23, 2022 22:30 | June 25, 2022 17:30 | 1d 19h | 3,069 | 8,844 |
| 6 | June 16, 2022 23:00 | June 17, 2022 10:15 | 11h 15m | 3,046 | 8,243 |
| 7 | March 23, 2022 21:45 | March 24, 2022 13:30 | 15h 45m | 2,823 | 8,388 |
| 8 | March 26, 2022 05:30 | March 27, 2022 23:30 | 1d 18h | 2,823 | 11K |
| 9 | October 24, 2022 20:30 | October 24, 2022 23:00 | 2h 30m | 2,677 | 3,647 |
| 10 | July 1, 2022 17:15 | July 3, 2022 01:30 | 1d 8h | 2,662 | 4,013 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 117 reached 100+ customers, 29 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Merced County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Gas & Electric Co. | 2022 | 5.4 hrs | 1.78 | 4.3 hrs | 1.63 |
| Turlock Irrigation District | 2022 | 1.6 hrs | 0.58 | 68 min | 0.50 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Merced Irrigation District | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 56,077 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. Merced County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Merced 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/merced-county