County annual report · FIPS 06039
2023 Madera County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Madera County, CA went without power for an average of 23.1 hours, a total of 1.6M customer-hours (California average 7.9 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 57 California counties and 327th 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 Madera 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 | September 2, 2023 12:45 | September 2, 2023 20:30 | 7h 45m | 14,975 | 47K |
| 2 | February 24, 2023 13:15 | March 12, 2023 23:00 | 16d 9h | 9,080 | 1.1M |
| 3 | August 20, 2023 01:00 | August 20, 2023 05:45 | 4h 45m | 7,228 | 10K |
| 4 | June 17, 2023 01:15 | June 17, 2023 03:00 | 1h 45m | 6,459 | 3,231 |
| 5 | March 21, 2023 14:30 | March 24, 2023 02:00 | 2d 11h | 6,160 | 12K |
| 6 | July 3, 2023 14:45 | July 4, 2023 19:15 | 1d 4h | 4,169 | 14K |
| 7 | December 7, 2023 14:00 | December 17, 2023 03:30 | 9d 13h | 3,997 | 7,776 |
| 8 | October 12, 2023 14:30 | October 13, 2023 04:15 | 13h 45m | 3,485 | 1,810 |
| 9 | June 21, 2023 15:15 | June 22, 2023 08:45 | 17h 30m | 3,222 | 3,567 |
| 10 | November 1, 2023 10:30 | November 2, 2023 10:45 | 1d | 3,222 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 133 reached 100+ customers, 45 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 Madera 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 68,503 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. Madera County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Madera 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/madera-county