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2017 Santa Barbara County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Santa Barbara County, CA went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 880K customer-hours (California average 2.2 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 47 California counties and 1019th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Santa Barbara County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 4, 2017 15:15 | December 5, 2017 07:45 | 16h 30m | 56,650 | 75K |
| 2 | June 8, 2017 05:00 | June 8, 2017 12:00 | 7h | 14,205 | 13K |
| 3 | July 10, 2017 01:45 | July 11, 2017 11:00 | 1d 9h | 10,341 | 10K |
| 4 | September 3, 2017 15:15 | September 5, 2017 02:45 | 1d 11h | 7,289 | 20K |
| 5 | December 3, 2017 03:30 | December 3, 2017 11:15 | 7h 45m | 7,003 | 37K |
| 6 | February 25, 2017 08:45 | February 26, 2017 10:00 | 1d 1h | 6,446 | 17K |
| 7 | September 15, 2017 15:15 | September 16, 2017 03:30 | 12h 15m | 4,956 | 9,339 |
| 8 | January 16, 2017 19:30 | January 16, 2017 19:45 | 15m | 4,737 | 1,184 |
| 9 | January 30, 2017 08:15 | January 30, 2017 10:45 | 2h 30m | 3,926 | 7,944 |
| 10 | February 17, 2017 14:15 | February 18, 2017 04:30 | 14h 15m | 3,618 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 230 reached 100+ customers, 42 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 2017, 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. | 2017 | 6.2 hrs | 1.55 | 1.9 hrs | 0.96 |
| Southern California Edison Co | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 1.19 | 1.5 hrs | 0.87 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/california/santa-barbara-county