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PSPS events are temporary and are meant to keep you and your community safe. While it is difficult to predict how often elevated weather conditions may occur, the threat of wildfires in California is real and growing.

Californians need to be prepared with a plan and have an emergency kit. SCE customers can update their contact information and find helpful safety tips at sce. Elevated weather conditions can cause vegetation or other items to be blown into power lines possibly creating a wildfire. Under these situations, we may temporarily shut off power to customers to keep you and your community safe.

These include, but are not limited to:. Each utility determines when a PSPS is called and how it will be implemented. Find more information about this statewide effort at: prepareforpowerdown. However, customers who do not live in these high fire risk areas may also be impacted because of how the electrical grid is interconnected.

SCE has a network of circuits providing power to 15 million people within a 50,square-mile area of central, coastal and Southern California. Anyone in California could be impacted by emergency events such as PSPS and need to be prepared with a plan. We engage and identify critical care customers on an ongoing basis well before a PSPS.

Power outages also happen in our service area unrelated to a PSPS, so customers need to be prepared to ensure medical equipment will still run during an outage. We encourage our critical care customers to have a backup plan now. Customers with special medical equipment should ensure that we have their most up-to-date contact information so we can notify them of a power shutoff. For more information: sce. Medical baseline customers may have medical equipment, but not all of that equipment is critical, life-saving equipment.

We intend to notify affected customers approximately two days in advance of a potential power shutoff. This notification will be via email, text or phone call. We may also send another notice to customers about one day before a potential power shutoff. We will keep customers updated regularly on our website and social media channels. We will also notify affected customers when power has been restored. A PSPS event will last as long as the dangerous fire weather conditions exist. If circuits are shut off, those circuits and lines will be inspected to ensure there are no problems that might create a danger before power can be safely restored.

SCE crews will need to visually inspect the power lines during daylight hours so operations may be limited during overnight hours. Customers should be prepared to be without power for an extended period of time during a PSPS. Customers should prepare emergency plans now.

Click here for more details. System reliability may be impacted during a rare, wider scale PSPS event and could result in rotating outages. Customers could be without power for an extended period of time and should take steps now to be prepared.

Find preparedness tips at: sce. We continue to reduce the risk of electrical equipment igniting wildfires, going beyond industry practices to address the new conditions we are facing. We are also expanding operational practices such as enhanced overhead inspections, vegetation management and emergency response protocols. Class name. Expose as Block. Get Outage Alerts. Manage Alerts Dismiss. View Outage Map. Add Horizontal line. Learn about the role weather plays in PSPS. To report or view current outages, visit our outages map.

We use your account contact information to reach you. If you are a small, medium or large business customer, we will contact all phone numbers and email addresses on file.

If there are multiple employees who need to be aware of a possible outage, you can add their contact information to your account. You can opt out of updates after the power has been turned off.

This opt-out preference will be in effect for the specific PSPS event and will not carry over to future outages. PSPS outage alerts go to the account holder for the affected address. If you are not the account holder for an address, you can still be notified when a PSPS outage has been announced in your area.

For address-specific PSPS updates to see if your home or business will be affected, use our address-lookup tool. Address Alerts can help you stay safe by informing you via call or text about an expected Public Safety Power Shutoff event at any address that's important to you. These notifications are available in multiple languages. We know PSPS events are disruptive and you need information as early as possible to be prepared. We will send alerts by email, phone call or text as early as possible, including the estimated power shut off and power restoration times, so customers can be ready for a PSPS.

Weather forecasts can change, shifting the shutoff timing or the number of affected customers. Because of this, in some cases we may not send the first notification until the same day your power is shut off. Customers receive alerts through email, phone call or text throughout a PSPS event:. PSPS Watch notifications are sent both two days before and one day before power is shut off, when possible, with estimated power shutoff and restoration times. This notification is typically sent several hours before power is shut off.

PSPS Update notifications are sent while power is shut off with any revised estimated restoration times. If you are a Medical Baseline customer, you may receive additional phone calls or an at-home visit to ensure your awareness and safety, and we ask that you confirm you have received our notifications.

Apply for Vulnerable Customer status if you, or someone in your household, has a serious illness or condition that could become life threatening if electric or gas service is disconnected.

Discover what factors go into the decision to turn off power to help prevent wildfires and find the weather tools that show if a PSPS will occur in your area. PSPS updates and alerts. Ensure your contact information is up to date so you can receive PSPS notifications.

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