Nearby Trona Power Outage: What Ridgecrest Residents Should Know About SCE’s October 22 Alert

Ridgecrest, California — October 22, 2026. Residents following power disruptions in neighboring communities can find the original incident reporting in Searles Valley News. This is a nearby-community news brief, not a claim that Ridgecrest experienced the same outage.

What happened nearby?

Searles Valley News has published a report covering the neighboring power disruption, with the available utility or local-source details, incident timing, and information about what remains unconfirmed. Read the original report and subsequent updates.

October 22, about 2 p.m. update: One Trona-area resident reports that their electricity was still off at 2 p.m., after the earlier 10 a.m. and noon estimates. No updated utility-wide restoration time is confirmed. This does not establish a power outage in Ridgecrest. Follow the original Searles Valley News article.

October 22 SCE follow-up: In a newer customer notice, Southern California Edison says the Trona-area outage was unexpected and crews are investigating the cause. The notice provides no new restoration deadline. This update does not establish an outage in Ridgecrest. Read the updated original report from Searles Valley News.

Does this affect Ridgecrest?

Ridgecrest is a nearby community, but Searles Valley News has not confirmed a matching outage in Ridgecrest itself. Readers should check their own utility account and address rather than extrapolate from an incident in a neighboring town. An estimated restoration time in the source article may have changed since publication.

How to check current service

For Trona-area Southern California Edison incidents, use SCE’s outage center. For the Shandon-area PG&E incidents, use PG&E’s outage map. Do not approach downed power lines or drive across flooded roads.

Original local reporting: Searles Valley News — source story. This neighboring edition credits the reporting newspaper and does not claim its own on-scene investigation.

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