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2016 Santa Clara County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Santa Clara County, CA went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (California average 2.5 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 20 California counties and 2264th 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 Clara 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 | July 23, 2016 09:15 | July 23, 2016 15:15 | 6h | 4,868 | 24K |
| 2 | January 12, 2016 17:00 | January 12, 2016 17:15 | 15m | 1,792 | 448 |
| 3 | January 26, 2016 17:45 | January 26, 2016 19:15 | 1h 30m | 1,127 | 1,691 |
| 4 | April 26, 2016 18:30 | April 26, 2016 18:45 | 15m | 893 | 223 |
| 5 | August 19, 2016 01:00 | August 19, 2016 15:45 | 14h 45m | 870 | 13K |
| 6 | May 17, 2016 20:00 | May 17, 2016 20:15 | 15m | 348 | 87 |
| 7 | May 16, 2016 17:00 | May 16, 2016 17:15 | 15m | 324 | 81 |
| 8 | May 23, 2016 14:00 | May 23, 2016 18:15 | 4h 15m | 283 | 439 |
| 9 | January 20, 2016 18:30 | January 20, 2016 19:15 | 45m | 209 | 95 |
| 10 | April 27, 2016 16:45 | April 27, 2016 17:00 | 15m | 143 | 36 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 11 reached 100+ customers, 3 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Clara 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 |
| City of Palo Alto - (CA) | 2016 | 40 min | 0.35 | - | - |
| City of Santa Clara - (CA) | 2013 | 51 min | 0.52 | - | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 844,715 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 Clara County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Santa Clara 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-clara-county