When will the power be back in Lake Forest, CA?

Lake Forest is a city of about 87,159 residents in Orange County.

Southern California Edison has reported outages for Lake Forest by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-08-21) — so when Lake Forest is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.

ZIP codes in Lake Forest:

• 92630

Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Lake Forest: the closest other places we track are Mission Viejo, about 4 miles to the south; Rancho Santa Margarita, about 5 miles to the southeast; Laguna Woods, about 5 miles to the southwest; and Laguna Hills, about 5 miles to the south. Also nearby: Irvine (6 mi W), Aliso Viejo (7 mi SW), Tustin (9 mi NW), Laguna Niguel (9 mi S), Laguna Beach (9 mi SW), Newport Beach (12 mi W), Dana Point (13 mi S) and Orange (13 mi NW).

Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Yorba Linda (17 mi); northeast toward Corona (15 mi); east toward Lake Elsinore (19 mi); south toward San Clemente (15 mi); west toward Costa Mesa (14 mi); and northwest toward Santa Ana (13 mi).

Lake Forest's last tracked outage began Oct 11, peaked at 1,038 customers out, and was restored in an hour. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 11 hours.

• Oct 11 — 1,038 customers out, restored in an hour
• Oct 9 — 1,042 customers out, restored in 13 hours
• Oct 4 — 40 customers out, restored in 7 hours
• Oct 2 — 96 customers out, restored in 12 hours