When will the power be back in Palm Desert, CA?

Palm Desert is a city of about 53,147 residents in Riverside County.

Southern California Edison has reported outages for Palm Desert by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-08-21) — so when Palm Desert 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 Palm Desert:

• 92211
• 92255
• 92260
• 92261

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

Around Palm Desert: the closest other places we track are Rancho Mirage, about 4 miles to the northwest; Cathedral City, about 9 miles to the northwest; Palm Springs, about 11 miles to the northwest; and Desert Hot Springs, about 18 miles to the northwest. Also nearby: Yucca Valley (27 mi N), Twentynine Palms (33 mi NE), San Jacinto (36 mi W), Hemet (36 mi W), Yucaipa (44 mi NW), Menifee (47 mi W), Temecula (47 mi W) and Murrieta (49 mi W).

Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: southwest toward Escondido (58 mi); west toward Perris (49 mi); and northwest toward Redlands (51 mi).

Palm Desert's last tracked outage began Oct 8, peaked at 61 customers out, and was restored in 2 hours. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 7 hours.

• Oct 8 — 61 customers out, restored in 2 hours
• Oct 7 — 125 customers out, restored in 8 hours
• Oct 6 — 880 customers out, restored in 16 hours
• Oct 6 — 84 customers out, restored in 7 hours