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2024 Merced County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Merced County, CA went without power for an average of 8.3 hours, a total of 466K customer-hours (California average 6.1 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 57 California counties and 1086th 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 Merced 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 | February 4, 2024 09:45 | February 7, 2024 03:15 | 2d 17h | 5,756 | 54K |
| 2 | November 23, 2024 12:00 | November 25, 2024 02:00 | 1d 14h | 5,227 | 12K |
| 3 | February 20, 2024 17:45 | February 21, 2024 11:45 | 18h | 5,192 | 13K |
| 4 | February 7, 2024 10:15 | February 10, 2024 11:00 | 3d | 5,188 | 23K |
| 5 | June 24, 2024 15:15 | June 25, 2024 08:00 | 16h 45m | 5,161 | 7,498 |
| 6 | July 8, 2024 04:00 | July 9, 2024 04:15 | 1d | 5,161 | 10K |
| 7 | February 28, 2024 23:15 | February 29, 2024 08:45 | 9h 30m | 4,593 | 9,599 |
| 8 | July 3, 2024 02:00 | July 3, 2024 20:15 | 18h 15m | 4,036 | 8,880 |
| 9 | May 14, 2024 20:45 | May 15, 2024 07:15 | 10h 30m | 3,817 | 3,957 |
| 10 | January 25, 2024 01:45 | January 25, 2024 04:45 | 3h | 3,715 | 1,860 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 158 reached 100+ customers, 45 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 Merced 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 |
| Turlock Irrigation District | 2024 | 74 min | 0.79 | 49 min | 0.52 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Merced Irrigation District | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 56,077 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. Merced County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Merced 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/merced-county