Power outages in Ventura County, CA

Live outage counts for Oxnard, Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks and the rest of Ventura County, updated every 10 minutes from Southern California Edison.

Right now

Outages reported

Normal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.

159customers without power

A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.

Share of customers unknown

At least one utility here doesn't publish how many customers it serves in this area, so we can't show a percentage.

Updated 7 min ago

We 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.

Southern California Edison159

Outage map

County outlineSouthern California Edison publishes totals only, not outage locations.

Some utilities publish only how many customers are out, not where. Their outages are in the counts but can't be drawn on the map.

Cities and towns

Utility counts by mailing city

Utilities 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.

City	Out	Customers i A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.	% out i Customers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
Simi Valley	2	–	–
Thousand Oaks	20	–	–
Ojai	1	–	–

Outage history in Ventura County

2014–2025 record

Ventura County averaged 48 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for California counties.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 50. Half were over within 1 hour; the longest lasted 3.9 days, starting January 7, 2025.

The largest on record began January 7, 2025, with 127,930 customers out at once.

48significant outages a year (2023–2025)

At 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.

45 minutestypical (median) length

Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.

3.9 dayslongest on record (January 2025)

127,930most customers out at once

Largest events (start)	Peak out	Lasted i How long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.	Customer-hours i Customers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
January 7, 2025	127,930	3.9 days	2,677,095
January 19, 2021	76,167	2 days	1,655,403
October 5, 2021	74,381	11 hours	600,080
October 28, 2017	33,018	3.5 hours	54,754
January 13, 2025	32,576	3 days	1,267,134

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

From 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.

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Generators, heat and cold

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Use a battery-powered carbon monoxide alarm.
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