California power outages

Live outages across California from PG&E, Southern California Edison, PacifiCorp (Pacific Power / Rocky Mountain Power) and SDG&E, updated every 10 minutes. 45 counties have customers without power right now.

Right now

Normal: scattered outages
iNormal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.
11,690customers without power
iA customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.
0.09% of 12,422,378 customersUpdated 2 min ago
iWe check every utility's outage data every 10 minutes. Each utility updates its own map on its own schedule, usually every 5 to 15 minutes.
PG&E7,245 / 5,684,922
Southern California Edison4,444 / 5,139,292
PacifiCorp (Pacific Power / Rocky Mountain Power)1 / 45,889
SDG&E0 / 1,552,275
Los Angeles Department of Water & Powerno live feed
iThis utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.
Serves part of the state, per federal utility records
iFrom EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.
. Check its own outage map.
Sacramento Municipal Util Distno live feed
iThis utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.
Serves part of the state, per federal utility records
iFrom EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.
. Check its own outage map.
Imperial Irrigation Districtno live feed
iThis utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.
Serves part of the state, per federal utility records
iFrom EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.
. Check its own outage map.

Outage map

Alameda County: 287 out (0.04%)Alpine County: 0 out (0.00%)Amador County: 9 out (0.04%)Butte County: 21 out (0.02%)Calaveras County: 54 out (0.17%)Colusa County: 1 out (<0.01%)Contra Costa County: 137 out (0.03%)Del Norte County: no live feedEl Dorado County: 23 out (0.03%)Fresno County: 90 out (–)Glenn County: 0 out (0.00%)Humboldt County: 17 out (0.03%)Imperial County: no live feedInyo County: 191 out (–)Kern County: 4,740 out (–)Kings County: 4 out (0.01%)Lake County: 46 out (0.12%)Lassen County: 0 out (0.00%)Los Angeles County: 1,199 out (–)Madera County: 118 out (0.17%)Marin County: 20 out (0.02%)Mariposa County: 24 out (0.21%)Mendocino County: 2 out (<0.01%)Merced County: 20 out (0.02%)Modoc County: no live feedMono County: no live feedMonterey County: 82 out (0.05%)Napa County: 113 out (0.17%)Nevada County: 26 out (0.06%)Orange County: 239 out (–)Placer County: 362 out (0.32%)Plumas County: 0 out (0.00%)Riverside County: 423 out (–)Sacramento County: 0 out (0.00%)San Benito County: 0 out (0.00%)San Bernardino County: 2,035 out (–)San Diego County: 0 out (–)San Francisco County: 134 out (0.03%)San Joaquin County: 3 out (<0.01%)San Luis Obispo County: 28 out (0.02%)San Mateo County: 100 out (0.03%)Santa Barbara County: 172 out (–)Santa Clara County: 197 out (0.03%)Santa Cruz County: 6 out (<0.01%)Shasta County: 6 out (0.02%)Sierra County: 0 out (0.00%)Siskiyou County: 1 out (–)Solano County: 11 out (<0.01%)Sonoma County: 33 out (0.01%)Stanislaus County: 2 out (<0.01%)Sutter County: 9 out (0.02%)Tehama County: 8 out (0.02%)Trinity County: 0 out (0.00%)Tulare County: 113 out (–)Tuolumne County: 6 out (0.02%)Ventura County: 156 out (–)Yolo County: 399 out (0.41%)Yuba County: 23 out (0.06%)
<0.01%0.01%0.1%1%+ outno live feed
iColor shows the share of each county's customers without power right now.

Counties with the most outages

54 counties with live data
CountyOutCustomers
iA customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.
% out
iCustomers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
Kern County4,740––
San Bernardino County2,035––
Los Angeles County1,199––
Riverside County423––
Yolo County39996,9830.41%
Placer County362113,9320.32%
Alameda County287658,9610.04%
Orange County239––
Santa Clara County197668,4540.03%
Inyo County191––
Santa Barbara County172––
Ventura County156––
Contra Costa County137467,9710.03%
San Francisco County134416,1950.03%
Madera County11870,4890.17%

Cities

Utility counts by mailing city
iUtilities group outages by the city in each customer's mailing address. A city's count can include nearby areas outside its city limits, and only covers that utility's customers.
CityOutCustomers
iA customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.
% out
iCustomers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
Santa Ana77––
Santa Clarita6––
San Bernardino15––
Fontana6––
Huntington Beach67––
Rancho Cucamonga15––
Palmdale389––
Corona287––
Pomona24––
Simi Valley2––
Thousand Oaks20––
El Monte46––

Outage history in California

2014–2025 record

California averaged 4.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, fewer than most states.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 3. Half were over within 3.5 hours; the longest lasted 3 days, starting January 8, 2025.

The largest on record began October 27, 2019, with 1,086,429 customers out at once.

Outages are most common in January.

4.3significant outages a year (2023–2025)
iAt least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.
14 hourstypical (median) length
iHalf of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.
4 dayslongest on record (October 2019)
1,086,429most customers out at once
Largest events (start)Peak outLasted
iHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.
Customer-hours
iCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
October 27, 20191,086,4294 days56,747,115
February 4, 2024888,9421.6 days17,966,618
October 9, 2019683,4042.5 days19,791,530
January 8, 2025677,0903 days18,853,906
January 8, 2023547,15116 hours6,825,196

Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).

iFrom EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.

Counties in California

Utilities