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

Power outage history

Orange County California

2.3hours

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

55th most of 56 in California 66% below the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 21, 2021 5% of customers out · 90% back in 48 min
Hours without power, average customer per year 2.3h / yr State average 6.2 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 1hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 13hours Jul 12, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 13% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 3.1 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 1,255,530 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 Orange'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

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.1 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Orange, hours without power per customer

OrangeUS median countyCalifornia average
0 2 4 6 8 3.3 ’15 3.2 ’16 2.7 ’17 0.6 ’18 2.1 ’19 2.1 ’20 2.5 ’21 2.7 ’22 2.4 ’23 2.5 ’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
Apr 21, 2021 No storm report 58,825 5% 11 h 48 min 255k
Jul 12, 2022 No storm report 14,363 1% 13 h 8.5 h 185k
Aug 2, 2019 No storm report 28,061 2% 8.2 h 1.8 h 126k
Aug 9, 2021 No storm report 18,487 1% 6.8 h 8.2 h 81k
Jan 23, 2023 Windstorm 23,574 2% 2.0 h 3.2 h 42k
Nov 27, 2022 No storm report 15,066 1% 4.8 h 1.5 h 40k
Oct 26, 2020 Wildfire 14,451 1% 3.0 h 14 h 33k
Jul 15, 2019 No storm report 13,399 1% 2.2 h 2.2 h 26k
Jul 27, 2024 No storm report 15,803 1% 1.5 h 30 min 23k
Oct 13, 2024 No storm report 15,730 1% 1.5 h 4.0 h 21k
Jan 23, 2017 Flooding 16,772 1% 1.0 h 6.2 h 15k
Jan 8, 2025 Windstorm 13,380 1% 1.0 h 2.5 h 13k

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 Orange from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 87%
  • Windstorm 9.5%
  • Wildfire 3.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Orange

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
Southern California Edison Co Investor Owned 545 116 1.39 31.5 4.6M
San Diego Gas & Electric Co Investor Owned 130 68 0.54 45.8 1.4M
City of Anaheim Municipal 32 32 0.59 19.4 107k

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 1,255,530 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 →