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2016 Santa Barbara County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Santa Barbara County, CA went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 433K customer-hours (California average 2.5 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 20 California counties and 1251st 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 Santa Barbara 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 | June 4, 2016 10:30 | June 5, 2016 03:15 | 16h 45m | 13,095 | 8,693 |
| 2 | December 19, 2016 07:15 | December 19, 2016 22:15 | 15h | 6,307 | 4,302 |
| 3 | April 28, 2016 01:15 | April 28, 2016 11:00 | 9h 45m | 5,502 | 5,122 |
| 4 | November 7, 2016 08:30 | November 7, 2016 14:30 | 6h | 5,029 | 4,742 |
| 5 | January 31, 2016 14:30 | February 1, 2016 09:15 | 18h 45m | 4,273 | 21K |
| 6 | July 24, 2016 22:15 | July 25, 2016 20:45 | 22h 30m | 3,597 | 2,976 |
| 7 | March 20, 2016 14:30 | March 21, 2016 11:00 | 20h 30m | 3,360 | 5,163 |
| 8 | July 14, 2016 05:00 | July 14, 2016 15:30 | 10h 30m | 2,798 | 17K |
| 9 | September 3, 2016 15:30 | September 3, 2016 22:15 | 6h 45m | 2,770 | 1,293 |
| 10 | June 13, 2016 13:15 | June 14, 2016 21:30 | 1d 8h | 2,666 | 3,028 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 183 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 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 |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/santa-barbara-county