Power Out Map
– 0% of Fresno out 0 customers out in California

Power outage history

Fresno County California

3.5hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

48th most of 56 in California 46% below the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 21, 2023 4% of customers out · 90% back in 21 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 3.5h / yr State average 6.2 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% – Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 18hours Oct 25, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 48% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 6.1 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 458,084 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Fresno's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 6.1 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Fresno, hours without power per customer

FresnoUS median countyCalifornia average
0 2 4 6 8 ’15 0.1 ’16 0.3 ’17 1.1 ’18 2.5 ’19 6.1 ’20 3.7 ’21 3.4 ’22 4.5 ’23 3.8 ’24 3.1 ’25 US 6.6 CA 6.2

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Feb 21, 2023 Windstorm 19,144 4% 14 h 21 h 131k
Oct 11, 2021 No storm report 14,099 3% 12 h 22 h 100k
Nov 11, 2024 Windstorm 17,444 4% 7.0 h 13 h 89k
Oct 25, 2020 No storm report 5,393 1% 18 h 48 min 83k
Jun 22, 2022 Windstorm 11,751 3% 8.8 h 10 h 72k
Feb 25, 2023 Winter storm 9,324 2% 7.8 h 17 h 46k
Oct 27, 2019 No storm report 4,634 1% 12 h – 44k
Jan 19, 2021 No storm report 7,666 2% 6.2 h 19 h 38k
Oct 8, 2021 Thunderstorms 12,223 3% 4.5 h 5.2 h 35k
Sep 8, 2020 No storm report 5,360 1% 6.8 h 19 h 35k
Oct 28, 2019 No storm report 5,348 1% 6.8 h 1.2 h 33k
Nov 8, 2022 Winter storm 18,807 4% 2.5 h 1.5 h 33k

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Fresno from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 52%
  • Windstorm 26%
  • Winter storm 12%
  • Thunderstorms 4.5%
  • Heat 3.0%
  • Flooding 2.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Fresno

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole California territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Investor Owned 273 208 1.63 37.5 5.1M
Southern California Edison Co Investor Owned 545 116 1.39 31.5 4.6M
WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration Federal – – – – –
Kings River Conservation Dist Political Subdivision – – – – –

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across California

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All California counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 458,084 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →