County annual report · FIPS 06071
2016 San Bernardino County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in San Bernardino County, CA went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 3.6M customer-hours (California average 2.5 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 20 California counties and 753rd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in San Bernardino County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 26, 2016 13:45 | February 27, 2016 01:45 | 12h | 17,523 | 8,640 |
| 2 | January 21, 2016 16:45 | January 22, 2016 05:00 | 12h 15m | 16,671 | 29K |
| 3 | February 6, 2016 16:30 | February 7, 2016 11:45 | 19h 15m | 16,558 | 25K |
| 4 | January 26, 2016 16:30 | January 27, 2016 07:30 | 15h | 16,065 | 37K |
| 5 | August 12, 2016 20:45 | August 15, 2016 02:00 | 2d 5h | 14,665 | 51K |
| 6 | October 14, 2016 05:30 | October 15, 2016 08:45 | 1d 3h | 12,624 | 11K |
| 7 | January 5, 2016 17:00 | January 10, 2016 08:30 | 4d 15h | 11,879 | 301K |
| 8 | March 25, 2016 15:30 | March 26, 2016 04:00 | 12h 30m | 11,595 | 24K |
| 9 | January 30, 2016 16:45 | February 1, 2016 09:15 | 1d 16h | 10,969 | 68K |
| 10 | November 3, 2016 14:45 | November 4, 2016 01:00 | 10h 15m | 10,802 | 6,112 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 258 reached 100+ customers, 169 reached 1,000+ customers, 10 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 Bernardino County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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. | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.10 | 1.8 hrs | 1.02 |
| Southern California Edison Co | 2016 | 2.2 hrs | 1.10 | 1.8 hrs | 0.99 |
| Arizona Public Service Co | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 0.91 | 87 min | 0.82 |
| Bear Valley Electric Service | 2016 | 5.4 hrs | 2.51 | 72 min | 0.79 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Aha Macav Power Service | - | - | - | - | - |
| Colorado River Indian Irr Proj | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Colton - (CA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Needles - (CA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Victorville - (CA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| DOD USMC Marine Air Ground Combat | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rancho Cucamonga Municipal Utility | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 840,555 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 Bernardino County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), San Bernardino County, CA annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/california/san-bernardino-county