Power outages in California
Live outage status by county · updated ~every 15 minutes
21,080
customers reported out statewide · 31 counties reporting · 13 with 50+ customers out
Updated 6:36 PM PDT.
Significant outages (50+ customers, largest first)
San Diego — 9,007 reported out · still growing right now — past outages here of 2,000–10,000 customers in the same kind of weather ran ~15 hr start to finish (5 on record)
Los Angeles — 4,892 reported out · ~6 hr to restore at the current pace (roughly 1,681 customers an hour)
Contra Costa — 4,429 reported out · grew sharply just now — past outages here of any size in the same kind of weather ran ~11 hr start to finish (7 on record)
Riverside — 611 reported out · ~8 hr to restore, weighing the current pace (roughly 527 customers an hour) against past outages here
Orange — 443 reported out · restoring slowly — roughly 12 customers an hour coming back
Ventura — 438 reported out · grew sharply just now — too soon to tell the trend
Sacramento — 258 reported out · grew sharply just now — past outages here of any size in the same kind of weather ran ~12 hr start to finish (5 on record)
Sonoma — 230 reported out · grew sharply just now — too soon to tell the trend
Santa Barbara — 184 reported out · no reliable recovery trend yet
El Dorado — 105 reported out · day 2 of this outage (started Oct 2) — ~9 hr to restore, weighing the current pace (roughly 25 customers an hour) against past outages here
Solano — 99 reported out · no reliable recovery trend yet
San Luis Obispo — 83 reported out · ~58 min to restore at the current pace (roughly 85 customers an hour)
Monterey — 57 reported out · no reliable recovery trend yet
“Reporting” means at least one customer reported out in county-level data (the federal nationwide tally combined with utilities' own live data where we track them); “significant” means 50+ customers out — the floor for the active list above.
All California counties (58)
- Alameda
- Alpine
- Amador
- Butte
- Calaveras
- Colusa
- Contra Costa
- Del Norte
- El Dorado
- Fresno
- Glenn
- Humboldt
- Imperial
- Inyo
- Kern
- Kings
- Lake
- Lassen
- Los Angeles
- Madera
- Marin
- Mariposa
- Mendocino
- Merced
- Modoc
- Mono
- Monterey
- Napa
- Nevada
- Orange
- Placer
- Plumas
- Riverside
- Sacramento
- San Benito
- San Bernardino
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- San Joaquin
- San Luis Obispo
- San Mateo
- Santa Barbara
- Santa Clara
- Santa Cruz
- Shasta
- Sierra
- Siskiyou
- Solano
- Sonoma
- Stanislaus
- Sutter
- Tehama
- Trinity
- Tulare
- Tuolumne
- Ventura
- Yolo
- Yuba
Utility coverage in California
Tracked utilities with dedicated pages
Pacific Gas & Electric (CA) · Southern California Edison · San Diego Gas & Electric (CA) · LADWP (Los Angeles) · SMUD (Sacramento) · PacifiCorp (Pacific Power / Rocky Mountain Power)
Also tracked live — opens in the app
Anaheim Public Utilities (CA) · Modesto Irrigation District (CA) · Riverside Public Utilities (CA) · Glendale Water & Power (CA) · Turlock Irrigation District (CA) · Roseville Electric Utility (CA) · Silicon Valley Power (Santa Clara, CA) · Surprise Valley Electric (CA/NV)
This is our tracking coverage, not a complete registry of every utility serving California.
Historical outage patterns in California
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy)
contain 65,811 county-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in California between 2014 and 2025 across all 58 counties — 1,861 of them major events of 10,000+ customers.
Half were restored within about 8.8 hr. The busiest year on record was 2024.
Largest single-county outage on record: ~1,717,886 customers out in Los Angeles County in January 2025, restored after about 3.6 days.
Months that hit the widest area at once — these rank among the three largest outages ever recorded in the most counties: October 2019 (23 counties), February 2024 (9 counties) and August 2020 (8 counties).
Where restoration has historically taken longest: Los Angeles County (~35.5 hr typical), Santa Clara County (~14.8 hr typical) and San Bernardino County (~14 hr typical) — against ~8.8 hr statewide.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), 2014–2025. These are federal
historical records, not outages tracked live by this site. Statewide figures aggregate the same per-county records shown on each county page below;
the statewide restoration figure is the typical (middle) value across the per-county typical times, weighted by how many records each county has. A county appears in a “widest area” month when that month
produced one of its three largest recorded outages.
Common questions
Which utilities serve California?
Electric utilities we track in California include Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric, LADWP and others. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.