When will the power be back in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Rancho Santa Margarita is a city of about 46,353 residents in Orange County.
None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for Rancho Santa Margarita by name, so this page reports the Orange County county-wide view, which covers Rancho Santa Margarita. If a serving utility does name Rancho Santa Margarita during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.
ZIP codes in Rancho Santa Margarita:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Rancho Santa Margarita: the closest other places we track are Mission Viejo, about 4 miles to the southwest; Lake Forest, about 5 miles to the northwest; Laguna Hills, about 6 miles to the southwest; and Laguna Woods, about 8 miles to the west. Also nearby: Aliso Viejo (8 mi SW), Laguna Niguel (9 mi SW), San Juan Capistrano (10 mi S), Irvine (11 mi W), Laguna Beach (11 mi SW), Dana Point (12 mi SW), San Clemente (13 mi S) and Tustin (14 mi NW).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Corona (16 mi); northeast toward Perris (24 mi); east toward Lake Elsinore (16 mi); southeast toward Oceanside (33 mi); west toward Newport Beach (15 mi); and northwest toward Orange (17 mi).
Who serves Rancho Santa Margarita?
We track live outage data from Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric and Anaheim Public Utilities ↗ in Orange County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map.
Rancho Santa Margarita's last tracked outage began Sep 24, peaked at 567 customers out, and was restored in 7 hours. Across the 3 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 7 hours.
- Sep 24 — 567 customers out, restored in 7 hours
- Sep 14 — 1,790 customers out, restored in 10 hours
- Sep 3 — 64 customers out, restored in 2 hours
County context: across all of Orange County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 13.5 hr. The full record for Orange County
Common questions
When will my power be back on in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA?
It depends on the cause and how many crews are working; the live status at the top of this page shows the current outlook. For context from Rancho Santa Margarita's own record: across the 3 outages this site has tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 7 hours — the outage-history panel above lists them.
How do I check the power outage status in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA?
To check your own street, search a Rancho Santa Margarita ZIP code — 92688 — and the map opens on that area.
