County annual report · FIPS 06031
2023 Kings County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Kings County, CA went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 301K customer-hours (California average 7.9 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 57 California counties and 1512th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kings County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 30, 2023 09:45 | November 30, 2023 14:30 | 4h 45m | 10,978 | 17K |
| 2 | August 20, 2023 00:15 | August 23, 2023 09:45 | 3d 9h | 5,346 | 42K |
| 3 | January 10, 2023 13:00 | January 10, 2023 19:00 | 6h | 3,782 | 12K |
| 4 | December 27, 2023 05:15 | December 27, 2023 08:45 | 3h 30m | 3,147 | 5,763 |
| 5 | August 7, 2023 14:15 | August 9, 2023 06:45 | 1d 16h | 3,141 | 27K |
| 6 | March 14, 2023 05:00 | April 12, 2023 10:30 | 29d 5h | 2,962 | 26K |
| 7 | January 1, 2023 18:45 | January 2, 2023 13:00 | 18h 15m | 2,866 | 3,967 |
| 8 | February 6, 2023 18:45 | February 7, 2023 12:00 | 17h 15m | 2,814 | 19K |
| 9 | January 31, 2023 16:45 | February 1, 2023 00:45 | 8h | 2,604 | 775 |
| 10 | November 21, 2023 17:15 | November 22, 2023 09:45 | 16h 30m | 2,493 | 1,810 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 85 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Kings County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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. | 2023 | 11.9 hrs | 2.22 | 4.3 hrs | 1.56 |
| Southern California Edison Co | 2023 | 1.9 hrs | 1.04 | 1.6 hrs | 0.94 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of California's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 62,998 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. Kings County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kings County, CA annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/california/kings-county