When will the power be back in Oceanside, CA?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Oceanside is a city of about 170,941 residents in San Diego County.
None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for Oceanside by name, so this page reports the San Diego County county-wide view, which covers Oceanside. If a serving utility does name Oceanside during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.
ZIP codes in Oceanside:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Oceanside: the closest other places we track are Vista, about 5 miles to the southeast; Carlsbad, about 7 miles to the south; San Marcos, about 10 miles to the southeast; and Encinitas, about 12 miles to the south. Also nearby: Escondido (15 mi SE), Solana Beach (16 mi S), Temecula (21 mi NE), San Clemente (23 mi NW), Poway (23 mi SE), Murrieta (25 mi N), Wildomar (27 mi N) and San Juan Capistrano (28 mi NW).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Lake Elsinore (32 mi); northeast toward Hemet (40 mi); southeast toward Santee (32 mi); south toward San Diego (29 mi); and northwest toward Dana Point (28 mi).
Who serves Oceanside?
We track live outage data from San Diego Gas & Electric in San Diego County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. Imperial Irrigation District also serves parts of San Diego County — we don't yet read its own live outage map.
Oceanside's last tracked outage began Sep 27, peaked at 279 customers out, and was restored in 18 hours. Across the 5 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 3 hours.
- Sep 27 — 279 customers out, restored in 18 hours
- Sep 18 — 299 customers out, restored in 9 hours
- Sep 15 — 311 customers out, restored in 3 hours
- Sep 6 — 288 customers out, restored in 2 hours
County context: across all of San Diego County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 11.8 hr. The full record for San Diego County
Common questions
How do I check the power outage status in Oceanside, CA?
To check your own street, search an Oceanside ZIP code — 92049, 92051, 92052, 92054, 92056, 92057 or any of the other 1 — and the map opens on that area.
