Orange County power outages
Orange County, California: your utility's map first, then the county's own figures from the Department of Energy and the EIA.
Official links, checked by hand. Utilities serving Orange County: EIA Form 861 (2025). PreparedStates isn't affiliated with any utility.
Out now in Orange County
318 customers without power in the Department of Energy's latest outage snapshot, Nov 2, 10:00 PM ET: Southern California Edison 318.
Not in this count: SDG&E and City of Anaheim aren't on DOE's ODIN outage feed. Check their own map if one of them is your utility.
Source: DOE / Oak Ridge National Laboratory ODIN, reprocessed about every 15 minutes; this page rechecks it every hour. Customers are meters (homes and businesses), not people.
How long the power goes out in Orange County
In 2025 the average Southern California Edison customer in California was without power for 9.1 hours in total (1.9 outside major events), its worst year since 2015. In 2025 the average SDG&E customer in California was without power for 2.2 hours in total (1.1 outside major events); its worst year since 2015 was 2020, at 3.3 hours. Across all California utilities it was 5.7 hours, and 4.4 across the US.
| Year | Southern California Edison | SDG&E |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9.1 | 2.2 |
| 2024 | 2.6 | 2.6 |
| 2023 | 1.9 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 2.2 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 3 | 1.3 |
| 2020 | 3.4 | 3.3 |
| 2019 | 3 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2.3 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2.3 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2.2 | 1.4 |
| 2015 | 1.9 | 1.1 |
Hours without power per customer per year (SAIDI, including major events), each utility's own figures for California in EIA Form 861 Reliability. A year is left out if the utility's reporting changed too much to compare. How every state compares.
Other utilities in Orange County
EIA also lists City of Anaheim in Orange County. If one of them sends your bill, its outage page is on its website and your bill.
What to do in a power outage
- Before: list what needs electricity, keep a flashlight for every person, and ask your provider for a plan for powered medical devices and cold medicines.
- During: keep the fridge and freezer closed, unplug appliances, and use flashlights instead of candles.
- Use generators, camp stoves and grills only outdoors, at least 20 feet from windows. Keep generators that far from doors and vents too.
- After: throw out fridge perishables after 4 hours without power or a cold source, and check refrigerated medicines.
The full power outage checklist, sourced to Ready.gov and the CDC, and how long a power outage lasts.
Get ready for the next one
- Build a power outage kit: Ready.gov's list, sized to your household.
- Portable power stations, compared: silent and safe indoors.
- Generators, compared, and the generator size calculator.
- What will it run? Runtimes for a fridge, CPAP or Wi-Fi.
Portable power stationsSilent, safe indoors: fridge, Wi-Fi, CPAP
Power banksKeep phones charged for days
Power failure lightsSwitch on by themselves
Wi-Fi and modem backupsKeep the internet up in short outagesQuestions
Is there a power outage in Orange County right now?
Check Southern California Edison's outage map, linked at the top of this page: it is the live picture. In the Department of Energy's latest outage snapshot (Nov 2, 10:00 PM ET), utilities that share data with it reported 318 customers without power in Orange County. SDG&E and City of Anaheim aren't on DOE's ODIN outage feed, so their customers aren't in that count.
How long do power outages last in Orange County?
In 2025, the average Southern California Edison customer in California was without power for about 9.1 hours in total over the year, 1.9 hours of it outside major events such as big storms, by the figures Southern California Edison reports to the US Energy Information Administration. Any single outage can be much shorter or longer.
How do I report a power outage in Orange County?
Report it to your utility, Southern California Edison, on its outage page or by the outage number on your bill, even if neighbors are out too: outage maps only show what the utility knows about. Report a fallen power line straight away and keep away from it (CDC).
What does customers out mean?
Outage maps and the Department of Energy's figures count customers, and one customer is one electric account or meter, usually a home or a business, so more people are affected than the number shows.
More on California and nearby
Sources (5)
- US Department of Energy / Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ODIN outage data by county
- US Department of Energy / Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ODIN participating utilities
- US Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861: service territories and reliability (SAIDI) by utility
- US Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Annual, Table 11.4: hours without power (SAIDI) by state
- CDC: what to do to protect yourself during a power outage