Millions of people were left without power on Wednesday as several wildfires raged across the metropolitan Los Angeles area.
Widespread power outages in Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside and San Diego counties were impacting more than 4 million customers at 2:30 p.m., according to the California Office of Emergency Services.
Los Angeles County, where the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire destroyed hundreds of homes, had the largest share of power outages, with nearly 1.9 million customers impacted.
The exact number of people without power wasn’t known, as each “customer” could represent an apartment or a home with several people living in it. Businesses are also marked as customers.
The map below shows the latest outage numbers by county from Cal OES. The agency updates it every 15 minutes. You can also open it in a new window here.
The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power and Southern California Edison both allow you to look up an address to find more specific outage information.
While some of the outages were caused by damaged power infrastructure amid the high winds and growing wildfires, others were part of a PSPS or Public Safety Power Shutoff. Utilities sometimes shut off power as a preventative measure when fire risk is high out of fear that downed power lines could spark new blazes.
Of SoCal Edison’s 5 million customers, the utility said Wednesday afternoon that 178,000 were under a PSPS. Another 420,000 customers were in an area under consideration for a PSPS.
SoCal Edison’s outage tracker also showed some estimated restoration times, depending on the outage area. In many high-fire risk zones, the power was expected to be shut off until at least mid-day Thursday.
In some cases, there was no estimated time for power restoration.
