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2015 Santa Barbara County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Santa Barbara County, CA went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 432K customer-hours (California average 3.1 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 23 California counties and 1148th 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 Santa Barbara 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 | November 17, 2015 10:30 | November 17, 2015 15:30 | 5h | 19,069 | 39K |
| 2 | October 14, 2015 15:30 | October 16, 2015 12:30 | 1d 21h | 8,674 | 30K |
| 3 | November 9, 2015 06:30 | November 9, 2015 13:15 | 6h 45m | 7,716 | 6,656 |
| 4 | September 12, 2015 02:15 | September 12, 2015 06:45 | 4h 30m | 5,734 | 5,213 |
| 5 | March 23, 2015 10:15 | March 24, 2015 10:30 | 1d | 4,755 | 12K |
| 6 | August 19, 2015 03:00 | August 21, 2015 04:00 | 2d 1h | 4,141 | 10K |
| 7 | September 29, 2015 15:30 | September 30, 2015 11:00 | 19h 30m | 3,663 | 3,397 |
| 8 | August 12, 2015 15:00 | August 12, 2015 21:15 | 6h 15m | 3,332 | 3,351 |
| 9 | December 14, 2015 01:00 | December 15, 2015 01:00 | 1d | 2,504 | 5,885 |
| 10 | November 17, 2015 16:15 | November 18, 2015 04:15 | 12h | 2,491 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 174 reached 100+ customers, 25 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Santa Barbara 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 |
| Central Coast Community Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lompoc - (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 ÷ 192,080 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. Santa Barbara County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Santa Barbara 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/santa-barbara-county