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2018 San Benito County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in San Benito County, CA went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (California average 3.7 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 57 California counties and 2243rd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in San Benito County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 1, 2018 21:45 | September 2, 2018 09:15 | 11h 30m | 9,405 | 10K |
| 2 | October 4, 2018 13:00 | October 4, 2018 21:15 | 8h 15m | 2,712 | 3,162 |
| 3 | November 1, 2018 16:00 | November 1, 2018 20:00 | 4h | 772 | 204 |
| 4 | November 2, 2018 16:00 | November 3, 2018 00:15 | 8h 15m | 769 | 406 |
| 5 | June 22, 2018 15:15 | June 22, 2018 23:30 | 8h 15m | 642 | 620 |
| 6 | July 10, 2018 13:30 | July 11, 2018 06:30 | 17h | 396 | 264 |
| 7 | July 23, 2018 20:30 | July 24, 2018 06:45 | 10h 15m | 367 | 336 |
| 8 | September 14, 2018 03:30 | September 14, 2018 05:15 | 1h 45m | 364 | 207 |
| 9 | August 8, 2018 12:30 | August 8, 2018 22:15 | 9h 45m | 218 | 889 |
| 10 | November 20, 2018 17:15 | November 20, 2018 23:15 | 6h | 216 | 664 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 23 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 San Benito County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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. | 2018 | 5.0 hrs | 1.18 | 2.1 hrs | 1.08 |
| Central Coast Community Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 91% of California's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 26,703 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 Benito County has data for 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), San Benito County, CA annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/california/san-benito-county