When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Visalia, CA?

See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Tulare County, California
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customers reported out in Tulare, California · updated 8:00 PM PDT
Official restoration time (Pacific Gas & Electric): ~6 hr from now
County-wide restoration outlook: ~1.1 hr to restore at the current pace (roughly 11 customers an hour)
🎯 Likely 0.5–2.7 hr — based on how accurate our past estimates like this have been.
📊 Past outages like this here ran ~8.6–16.2 hr start to finish, based on 6 similar outages.
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
This active outage is being reported by Pacific Gas & Electric — the utility whose own live data supplies this county's count.
Showing County-wide data because we don't have Visalia-specific numbers right now — your neighborhood may be restored earlier or later.
Open the live outage map Report an outage — official utility site ↗
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 Visalia, California — customers reported out, restoration progress, active weather alerts, and an independent restoration estimate. Visalia is a city in Tulare County; when the serving utility's public feed reports Visalia directly, this page shows the city's own outage count and restoration time, with the county-wide view as context.

What we track for Visalia

Visalia is a city of about 146,271 residents in Tulare County.

Southern California Edison has reported outages for Visalia by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-07-27) — so when Visalia 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 Visalia: 93277 · 93278 · 93279 · 93290 · 93291 · 93292 Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Visalia: the closest other places we track are Farmersville, about 7 miles to the east; Tulare, about 9 miles to the south; Exeter, about 10 miles to the east; Lindsay, about 15 miles to the southeast. Also nearby: Dinuba (15 mi N), Hanford (18 mi W), Kingsburg (19 mi NW), Reedley (20 mi N), Corcoran (21 mi SW), Parlier (23 mi NW), Selma (23 mi NW), Porterville (24 mi SE). Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: southeast toward Tehachapi (96 mi); south toward Delano (39 mi); southwest toward Avenal (49 mi); west toward Lemoore (26 mi); northwest toward Sanger (29 mi).

Who serves Visalia?

We track live outage data from Southern California Edison in Tulare 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.

Recent outages tracked in Visalia

Visalia's last tracked outage began Aug 15, peaked at 50 customers out, and was restored in 50 minutes. Across the 2 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran an hour.

  • Aug 15 — 50 customers out, restored in 50 minutes
  • Aug 14 — 42 customers out, restored in 2 hours
Tracked by this site's own monitoring of the serving utilities' live feeds (outages of 25+ customers; times are US Eastern). These recent, city-level outages build on the longer-term federal record below.
Longer-term outage history — Tulare County, CA (covers Visalia)
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 1,930 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 14 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~7.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~75,292 customers out in October 2021, restored after about 1.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2019.
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 Visalia, 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 Visalia area — shown even before your utility posts an official restoration time. Check the live power outage status at the top of this page. For context from Visalia's own record: across the 2 outages this site has tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran an hour — the outage-history panel above lists them.

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

This page is a live power outage status check for the Visalia 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 Visalia ZIP code — 93277, 93278, 93279, 93290, 93291, 93292 — 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 Visalia, CA?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities tracked in Tulare County include 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 Visalia specifically, or the whole county?

Both, and for Visalia we have the city-level view: Southern California Edison has published outages for Visalia under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-07-27. When Visalia is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the Tulare County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes Visalia.

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.

Visalia, CA — live power outage tracker