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An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric and Anaheim Public Utilities ↗, 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 — Orange County, CA
Last significant outage: Sep 26, 2026 — peaked at 3,361 customers, restored in ~6.7 days (heat event).
Across the 32 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.1 days.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 4, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Orange County, CA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
3,212 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 102 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~13.5 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: ~253,449 customers out in January 2025, restored after about 30 hr. 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.
Communities in Orange County include Anaheim, Irvine, Santa Ana, Huntington Beach, Garden Grove, Fullerton, Costa Mesa and Mission Viejo. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Orange County, CA?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Orange include Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric and Anaheim Public Utilities — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
