When will the power be back in Kern County, CA?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Kern County, CA right now.
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Elsewhere in California: 1,535 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 9:46 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
Last significant outage: Oct 10, 2026 — peaked at 364 customers, restored in ~16.3 hr (wind/storm).
Across the 40 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 15.8 hr (median).
Every outage behind these figures (40)
| Began | Peak out | Restored in | Weather |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 10, 2026 | 364 | ~16.3 hr | wind/storm |
| Oct 9, 2026 | 954 | ~2 hr | no severe weather |
| Oct 9, 2026 | 3,131 | ~1.7 hr | heat event |
| Oct 8, 2026 | 1,422 | ~18.3 hr | heat event |
| Oct 7, 2026 | 1,363 | ~6.7 hr | heat event |
| Oct 6, 2026 | 619 | ~21 hr | heat event |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 2,246 | ~10.2 hr | heat event |
| Oct 2, 2026 | 801 | ~24 hr | heat event |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 636 | ~42.5 hr | heat event |
| Sep 29, 2026 | 1,469 | ~18.8 hr | heat event |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 222 | ~20.5 hr | no severe weather |
| Sep 22, 2026 | 317 | ~2.7 days | heat event |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 202 | ~18.2 hr | weather alert |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 5,540 | ~7.2 hr | no severe weather |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 251 | ~15 hr | no severe weather |
| Sep 16, 2026 | 289 | ~13 hr | no severe weather |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 2,590 | ~8 hr | no severe weather |
| Sep 13, 2026 | 1,110 | ~27.8 hr | heat event |
| Sep 11, 2026 | 3,300 | ~40.5 hr | heat event |
| Sep 10, 2026 | 1,132 | ~4.5 hr | heat event |
| Sep 9, 2026 | 1,268 | ~16.3 hr | heat event |
| Sep 8, 2026 | 4,150 | ~10.8 hr | heat event |
| Sep 6, 2026 | 493 | ~15.2 hr | no severe weather |
| Sep 3, 2026 | 248 | ~8 hr | no severe weather |
| Sep 1, 2026 | 666 | ~29 hr | no severe weather |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 797 | ~7.8 hr | no severe weather |
| Aug 27, 2026 | 668 | ~42.2 hr | heat event |
| Aug 23, 2026 | 507 | ~43.8 hr | heat event |
| Aug 23, 2026 | 853 | ~9 hr | heat event |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1,342 | ~7.3 hr | heat event |
| Aug 20, 2026 | 559 | ~17.7 hr | heat event |
| Aug 18, 2026 | 2,126 | ~22.2 hr | heat event |
| Aug 18, 2026 | 4,841 | ~15 hr | heat event |
| Aug 17, 2026 | 9,109 | ~6.2 hr | wind/storm |
| Aug 14, 2026 | 285 | ~3.5 hr | no severe weather |
| Aug 13, 2026 | 295 | ~17.2 hr | heat event |
| Aug 10, 2026 | 2,685 | ~29.5 hr | heat event |
| Aug 9, 2026 | 2,779 | ~27.5 hr | heat event |
| Aug 7, 2026 | 4,887 | ~14.7 hr | heat event |
| Aug 7, 2026 | 4,869 | ~7 hr | heat event |
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 7, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Recent outages tracked in McFarland
McFarland's last tracked outage began Sep 28, peaked at 118 customers out, and was restored in 15 hours. Across the 2 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 12 hours.
- Sep 28 — 118 customers out, restored in 15 hours
- Sep 4 — 25 customers out, restored in 10 hours
Tracked by this site from the serving utilities' own live outage maps (outages of 25+ customers; dates are local calendar days). These recent, city-level outages build on the longer-term federal record below.
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, replayed through the same event rules as our tracking archive above with two differences: outages shorter than
half an hour count here, and a reading above twice the county's customers or households is capped. They cover a far longer period
than we have been tracking — a different set of outages, so the two typical times differ. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities with their own pages in Kern County
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.
This page also serves McFarland and Shafter: their outages are counted in this county's total, and the outages tracked in McFarland are listed with the outage history above.
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