When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Dana Point, CA?

See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Orange County, California
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customers reported out in Orange, California · updated 7:15 PM PDT · utility data as of 7:26 PM PDT
Official restoration time (San Diego Gas & Electric): ~3.5 hr from now
Official restoration time (Southern California Edison): ~4 hr from now
County-wide restoration outlook: eased overall (small recent uptick) — already running longer than the typical past outage here (~1.8 days start to finish), based on 4 past outages
🔔 Check back after the next update, or keep me updated — we'll alert you when a dependable restoration estimate is ready.
Combined from the live data of the utilities serving this county — the slower nationwide tally shows 17.
Showing County-wide data because we don't have Dana Point-specific numbers right now — your neighborhood may be restored earlier or later.
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Utility informationOur restoration forecast
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 Dana Point, California — customers reported out, restoration progress, active weather alerts, and an independent restoration estimate. Dana Point is a city in Orange County; when the serving utility's public feed reports Dana Point directly, this page shows the city's own outage count and restoration time, with the county-wide view as context.

What we track for Dana Point

Dana Point is a city of about 32,585 residents in Orange County.

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

ZIP codes in Dana Point: 92629 Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Dana Point: the closest other places we track are San Juan Capistrano, about 3 miles to the northeast; Laguna Niguel, about 4 miles to the north; San Clemente, about 5 miles to the east; Laguna Beach, about 6 miles to the northwest. Also nearby: Aliso Viejo (8 mi N), Laguna Hills (8 mi N), Laguna Woods (10 mi N), Mission Viejo (10 mi N), Rancho Santa Margarita (12 mi NE), Lake Forest (13 mi N), Newport Beach (14 mi NW), Irvine (15 mi N). Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Tustin (19 mi); northeast toward Lake Elsinore (25 mi); east toward Wildomar (27 mi); southeast toward Oceanside (28 mi); northwest toward Costa Mesa (18 mi).

Who serves Dana Point?

We track live outage data from Anaheim Public Utilities ↗, Southern California Edison in Orange 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.

Outage history — Orange County, CA (covers Dana Point)
Last significant outage: Aug 12, 2026 — peaked at 3,226 customers, restored in ~3.9 days (weather alert).
Across the 15 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 5, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Orange County, CA (covers Dana Point)
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.

Common questions

When will my power be back on in Dana Point, 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 Dana Point area — shown even before your utility posts an official restoration time. Check the live power outage status at the top of this page.

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

This page is a live power outage status check for the Dana Point 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 Dana Point ZIP code — 92629 — 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 Dana Point, CA?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities tracked in Orange County include Anaheim Public Utilities, 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 Dana Point specifically, or the whole county?

Right now, the Orange County county-wide view, which covers Dana Point. No utility outage map we follow has yet listed an outage for Dana Point by name; utilities here have so far reported only county-wide totals, or used area names we cannot match to Dana Point. If that changes during an outage, the city's own count and restoration time appear here automatically. San Juan Capistrano (3 mi NE) 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.

Dana Point, CA — live power outage tracker