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2015 San Diego County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in San Diego County, CA went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 2.5M customer-hours (California average 3.1 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 23 California counties and 1315th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in San Diego County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 20, 2015 20:15 | September 20, 2015 22:15 | 2h | 68,549 | 96K |
| 2 | July 14, 2015 15:00 | July 19, 2015 01:45 | 4d 10h | 26,068 | 161K |
| 3 | November 25, 2015 04:00 | November 26, 2015 21:00 | 1d 17h | 17,178 | 64K |
| 4 | June 25, 2015 03:30 | June 26, 2015 00:45 | 21h 15m | 16,151 | 16K |
| 5 | July 1, 2015 14:30 | July 5, 2015 00:00 | 3d 9h | 15,897 | 39K |
| 6 | October 15, 2015 06:45 | October 17, 2015 11:00 | 2d 4h | 14,899 | 14K |
| 7 | September 9, 2015 00:15 | September 11, 2015 03:45 | 2d 3h | 11,825 | 68K |
| 8 | September 11, 2015 15:30 | September 19, 2015 21:30 | 8d 6h | 8,215 | 126K |
| 9 | August 14, 2015 14:15 | August 21, 2015 12:00 | 6d 21h | 7,384 | 73K |
| 10 | November 4, 2015 03:45 | November 6, 2015 01:30 | 1d 21h | 7,274 | 29K |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 265 reached 100+ customers, 142 reached 1,000+ customers, 7 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving San Diego County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Gas & Electric Co. | 2015 | 2.5 hrs | 1.05 | 1.6 hrs | 0.87 |
| Southern California Edison Co | 2015 | 1.9 hrs | 0.92 | 1.7 hrs | 0.86 |
| Imperial Irrigation District | 2015 | 76 min | 0.91 | 53 min | 0.61 |
| San Diego Gas & Electric Co | 2015 | 63 min | 0.62 | 58 min | 0.53 |
| City of Escondido - (CA) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of California's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,362,929 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. San Diego County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), San Diego County, CA annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/california/san-diego-county