When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Palmdale, CA?

See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Los Angeles County, California
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customers reported out in Palmdale · live from Southern California Edison · updated 6:54 PM PDT
Utility restoration time for Palmdale: ~3 hr from now
Palmdale outlook: past outages here typically ran ~11 hr, based on 9 similar past outages
Across the whole county (Los Angeles, California, all utilities): 276 reported out — a broader count from a different source; don't add it to the Palmdale figure above.
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Official ETA, when the utility posts oneIndependent estimated return window when trend data allows — often available first
Utility-reported status & customer countsConfidence range + whether the outage is growing, stable, or restoring

How the forecast works: we analyze how quickly customers are being restored, whether the outage is still growing, current weather, outage size, and similar past outages in this area. Every completed forecast is compared with when power actually returned. As of Aug 19, 7,878 completed outages have been graded this way — median error 2 hours across the most recent 600 of them (about 1.9 days), and we publish the misses. See the full record (how it works). Independent and unofficial: never the utility's commitment.

Track current power outages in Palmdale, California — customers reported out, restoration progress, active weather alerts, and an independent restoration estimate. Palmdale is a city in Los Angeles County; when the serving utility's public feed reports Palmdale directly, this page shows the city's own outage count and restoration time, with the county-wide view as context.

What we track for Palmdale

Palmdale is a city of about 162,536 residents in Los Angeles County.

None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for Palmdale by name, so this page reports the Los Angeles County county-wide view, which covers Palmdale. If a serving utility does name Palmdale during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.

ZIP codes in Palmdale: 93550 · 93551 · 93552 · 93590 · 93591 · 93599 Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Palmdale: the closest other places we track are Lancaster, about 8 miles to the northwest; Santa Clarita, about 25 miles to the southwest; La Cañada Flintridge, about 27 miles to the south; San Fernando, about 28 miles to the southwest. Also nearby: Sierra Madre (30 mi S), Glendale (30 mi S), Pasadena (30 mi S), Monrovia (30 mi S), Burbank (31 mi SW), Duarte (31 mi S), Arcadia (32 mi S), San Marino (33 mi S). Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward California City (41 mi); east toward Adelanto (38 mi); southeast toward Glendora (34 mi); south toward Azusa (33 mi); southwest toward Los Angeles (38 mi); northwest toward Tehachapi (42 mi).

Who serves Palmdale?

We track live outage data from Glendale Water & Power, LADWP, Southern California Edison in Los Angeles County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. See the forecast panel above for how the estimate works — its inputs, its independence from the utility, and how every completed forecast is scored against what actually happened. Outages below 5 customers are too small for a meaningful area-wide estimate — the page says so instead of guessing.

Recent outages tracked in Palmdale

Palmdale's last tracked outage began Aug 14, peaked at 253 customers out, and was restored in 4 hours. Across the 4 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 5 hours.

  • Aug 14 — 253 customers out, restored in 4 hours
  • Aug 14 — 253 customers out, restored in 7 hours
  • Aug 12 — 56 customers out, restored in 9 hours
  • Aug 12 — 56 customers out, restored in 50 minutes
Tracked by this site's own monitoring of the serving utilities' live feeds (outages of 25+ customers; times are US Eastern). These recent, city-level outages build on the longer-term federal record below.
Longer-term outage history — Los Angeles County, CA (covers Palmdale)
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 1,873 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 467 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~35.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
That is longer than the California norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~8.8 hr.
Largest on record: ~1,717,886 customers out in January 2025, restored after about 3.6 days. The busiest year on record here was 2020.
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.

Common questions

When will my power be back on in Palmdale, CA?

It depends on the cause and how many crews are working. When's the Power Back? combines the live outage count, the current restoration rate, weather, and local history into an independent estimate for the Palmdale area — shown even before your utility posts an official restoration time. Check the live power outage status at the top of this page. For context from Palmdale's own record: across the 4 outages this site has tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 5 hours — the outage-history panel above lists them.

How do I check the power outage status in Palmdale, CA?

This page is a live power outage status check for the Palmdale area: current customers out, the affected areas on the map, and an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data is available, refreshed about every 15 minutes from utilities' own outage maps and the federal government's county outage data. To narrow it to your own street, search a Palmdale ZIP code — 93550, 93551, 93552, 93590, 93591, 93599 — and the map opens on that area. Your utility's own outage map remains the official word for your account.

How do I report a power outage in Palmdale, CA?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities tracked in Los Angeles County include Glendale Water & Power, LADWP, Southern California Edison; confirm your own provider, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

Does this page show Palmdale specifically, or the whole county?

Right now, the Los Angeles County county-wide view, which covers Palmdale. No utility outage map we follow has yet listed an outage for Palmdale by name; utilities here have so far reported only county-wide totals, or used area names we cannot match to Palmdale. If that changes during an outage, the city's own count and restoration time appear here automatically. Lancaster (8 mi NW) is the closest place we track separately.

How accurate is the restoration estimate?

Every estimate is later graded against when the tracked outage was substantially restored (~90% of customers back), and the track record is published on our accuracy page. Estimates firm up a few hours into an outage once a steady restoration trend appears; very small outages are marked "too small to estimate" rather than guessed.

Palmdale, CA — live power outage tracker