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2022 Orange County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Orange County, CA went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 3.4M customer-hours (California average 4.9 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 57 California counties and 2032nd 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 Orange 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 | October 24, 2022 03:00 | October 26, 2022 11:00 | 2d 8h | 21,978 | 52K |
| 2 | November 2, 2022 12:45 | November 4, 2022 11:30 | 1d 22h | 18,292 | 51K |
| 3 | July 18, 2022 08:00 | July 21, 2022 01:30 | 2d 17h | 15,761 | 63K |
| 4 | August 8, 2022 15:30 | August 12, 2022 13:45 | 3d 22h | 15,638 | 58K |
| 5 | November 28, 2022 00:45 | November 30, 2022 00:45 | 2d | 15,066 | 92K |
| 6 | July 12, 2022 15:15 | July 14, 2022 11:00 | 1d 19h | 14,363 | 192K |
| 7 | September 8, 2022 15:45 | September 13, 2022 11:15 | 4d 19h | 11,660 | 100K |
| 8 | March 1, 2022 16:15 | March 19, 2022 12:00 | 17d 19h | 10,902 | 204K |
| 9 | December 5, 2022 13:15 | December 8, 2022 02:15 | 2d 13h | 8,624 | 54K |
| 10 | March 20, 2022 01:15 | April 3, 2022 11:45 | 14d 10h | 7,107 | 115K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 258 reached 100+ customers, 147 reached 1,000+ customers, 8 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 Orange 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern California Edison Co | 2022 | 2.2 hrs | 1.08 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| San Diego Gas & Electric Co | 2022 | 70 min | 0.59 | 70 min | 0.59 |
| City of Anaheim - (CA) | 2022 | 25 min | 0.44 | 25 min | 0.44 |
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 ÷ 1,255,530 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county