When will the power be back in Kern County, CA?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · California
No significant county-wide outage reported in Kern County, CA right now.
⚠️ Heat Advisory in effect for this area — conditions that can cause outages. This page updates about every 15 minutes.
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Elsewhere in California: 10,842 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 4:30 PM PDT.
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Who serves Kern County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Kern County, CA
⚡ Power here was restored about 21 hours ago — the outage peaked at 801 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 801 customers, restored in ~24 hr (heat event).
Across the 40 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 16.8 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 23, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Kern County, CA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
2,350 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 21 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~9.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~79,327 customers out in January 2025, restored after about 14.5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2022.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track in Kern County
Arvin · Bakersfield · California City · Delano · McFarland · Ridgecrest · Shafter · Tehachapi · Wasco
Communities in Kern County include Bakersfield, Delano, Ridgecrest, Wasco, Shafter, Arvin, McFarland and California City. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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