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2024 Kern County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Kern County, CA went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 1.8M customer-hours (California average 6.1 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 57 California counties and 1707th 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 Kern 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 | January 31, 2024 15:15 | February 16, 2024 11:45 | 15d 20h | 19,305 | 288K |
| 2 | November 10, 2024 15:00 | November 16, 2024 11:00 | 5d 20h | 17,775 | 97K |
| 3 | July 20, 2024 10:45 | July 23, 2024 10:15 | 2d 23h | 17,179 | 72K |
| 4 | April 27, 2024 14:30 | April 28, 2024 02:15 | 11h 45m | 8,694 | 20K |
| 5 | May 24, 2024 09:15 | June 20, 2024 05:45 | 26d 20h | 8,283 | 179K |
| 6 | November 16, 2024 16:15 | November 21, 2024 11:45 | 4d 19h | 7,342 | 52K |
| 7 | April 10, 2024 14:45 | April 21, 2024 04:30 | 10d 13h | 6,404 | 62K |
| 8 | July 23, 2024 12:30 | July 24, 2024 13:15 | 1d | 6,198 | 18K |
| 9 | March 6, 2024 15:15 | March 22, 2024 10:15 | 15d 19h | 5,919 | 52K |
| 10 | May 13, 2024 07:45 | May 18, 2024 06:30 | 4d 22h | 5,001 | 20K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 132 reached 100+ customers, 61 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Kern 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Gas & Electric Co. | 2024 | 8.5 hrs | 2.15 | 4.6 hrs | 1.82 |
| Southern California Edison Co | 2024 | 2.6 hrs | 0.99 | 1.7 hrs | 0.90 |
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 ÷ 395,015 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. Kern County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kern 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/kern-county