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2024 Imperial County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Imperial County, CA went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (California average 6.1 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 57 California counties and 2863rd of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Imperial County, 2024
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 29, 2024 08:00 | October 29, 2024 15:45 | 7h 45m | 2,052 | 15K |
| 2 | November 22, 2024 06:45 | November 22, 2024 07:30 | 45m | 1,027 | 770 |
| 3 | January 22, 2024 21:15 | January 22, 2024 22:15 | 1h | 873 | 873 |
| 4 | September 6, 2024 05:00 | September 6, 2024 05:15 | 15m | 744 | 186 |
| 5 | May 20, 2024 15:00 | May 20, 2024 17:00 | 2h | 350 | 196 |
| 6 | August 15, 2024 19:00 | August 15, 2024 22:30 | 3h 30m | 243 | 851 |
| 7 | May 12, 2024 05:30 | May 13, 2024 15:45 | 1d 10h | 168 | 645 |
| 8 | August 11, 2024 01:30 | August 11, 2024 06:15 | 4h 45m | 145 | 465 |
| 9 | September 6, 2024 11:30 | September 7, 2024 18:15 | 1d 6h | 145 | 4,459 |
| 10 | March 14, 2024 17:00 | March 14, 2024 17:15 | 15m | 126 | 32 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 11 reached 100+ customers, 2 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Imperial County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 2.6 hrs | 0.99 | 1.7 hrs | 0.90 |
| Imperial Irrigation District | 2024 | 61 min | 0.69 | 61 min | 0.69 |
| 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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 72,691 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. Imperial County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Imperial County, CA annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/california/imperial-county