California power outages in 2024
California customers averaged 285.0 minutes (4 h 45 min) without power in 2024, rank 29 of 51 and below the 297-minute median. Major event days made up 42% of those minutes.
- All events
- 285.0 min
- Excl. major event days
- 164.4 min
- Outages per customer
- 1.35
- Customers counted
- 15,232,351
A portable power station sized to a few hours may cover a typical outage. Never run a fuel generator indoors or in a garage.