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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: Oct 3, 2026 — peaked at 4,281 customers, restored in ~3.8 days (heat event).
Across the 33 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.1 days (median).
Every outage behind these figures (33)
Began
Peak out
Restored in
Weather
Oct 3, 2026
4,281
~3.8 days
heat event
Sep 26, 2026
3,361
~6.7 days
heat event
Sep 20, 2026
4,514
~6.2 days
no severe weather
Sep 18, 2026
476
~41 hr
no severe weather
Sep 15, 2026
6,063
~2.1 days
weather alert
Sep 13, 2026
3,420
~44.3 hr
no severe weather
Sep 11, 2026
2,562
~47.7 hr
heat event
Sep 7, 2026
10,697
~3.7 days
heat event
Sep 7, 2026
823
~4.8 hr
heat event
Sep 6, 2026
2,431
~29 hr
heat event
Sep 4, 2026
1,075
~20 hr
weather alert
Sep 2, 2026
5,596
~2.5 days
weather alert
Aug 31, 2026
1,942
~2.2 days
no severe weather
Aug 28, 2026
3,277
~2.5 days
heat event
Aug 26, 2026
6,424
~40.3 hr
heat event
Aug 22, 2026
2,885
~3.8 days
heat event
Aug 21, 2026
3,355
~20.5 hr
heat event
Aug 16, 2026
3,238
~4.9 days
heat event
Aug 11, 2026
3,226
~3.9 days
weather alert
Aug 11, 2026
2,825
~16 hr
weather alert
Aug 4, 2026
2,582
~6.8 days
heat event
Aug 2, 2026
2,187
~35 hr
heat event
Jul 29, 2026
4,155
~2.1 days
heat event
Jul 25, 2026
5,145
~4.6 days
heat event
Jul 22, 2026
6,722
~2.9 days
heat event
Jul 21, 2026
3,445
~13.2 hr
heat event
Jul 18, 2026
1,975
~2.6 days
heat event
Jul 17, 2026
3,089
~24.7 hr
weather alert
Jul 12, 2026
7,131
~4.1 days
heat event
Jul 9, 2026
4,297
~2.7 days
weather alert
Jul 7, 2026
1,415
~42.8 hr
no severe weather
Jul 6, 2026
2,810
~18.5 hr
no severe weather
Jul 4, 2026
1,922
~16.3 hr
weather alert
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.
Recent outages tracked in La Palma
La Palma's last tracked outage began Sep 5, peaked at 926 customers out, and was restored in an hour.
Sep 5 — 926 customers out, restored in an hour
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.
Recent outages tracked in San Juan Capistrano
San Juan Capistrano's last tracked outage began Sep 24, peaked at 170 customers out, and was restored in 3 hours. Across the 2 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 2 hours.
Sep 24 — 170 customers out, restored in 3 hours
Aug 18 — 770 customers out, restored in 30 minutes
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.
Recent outages tracked in Seal Beach
Seal Beach's last tracked outage began Sep 2, peaked at 27 customers out, and was restored in 3 hours.
Sep 2 — 27 customers out, restored in 3 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 — 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, 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.
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.
This page also serves La Palma, Los Alamitos, San Juan Capistrano and Seal Beach: their outages are counted in this county's total, and the outages tracked in La Palma, San Juan Capistrano and Seal Beach are listed with the outage history above.
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.
