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2018 Santa Barbara County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Santa Barbara County, CA went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 968K customer-hours (California average 3.7 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 57 California counties and 1037th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Santa Barbara 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 | October 3, 2018 12:15 | October 4, 2018 13:00 | 1d | 13,902 | 28K |
| 2 | January 9, 2018 10:30 | January 10, 2018 02:15 | 15h 45m | 8,152 | 68K |
| 3 | October 4, 2018 15:00 | October 6, 2018 14:30 | 1d 23h | 5,999 | 31K |
| 4 | November 27, 2018 15:45 | November 28, 2018 06:30 | 14h 45m | 5,393 | 7,842 |
| 5 | September 29, 2018 22:15 | October 1, 2018 03:30 | 1d 5h | 5,337 | 5,772 |
| 6 | December 25, 2018 22:45 | December 28, 2018 11:00 | 2d 12h | 4,630 | 13K |
| 7 | December 4, 2018 14:45 | December 5, 2018 13:15 | 22h 30m | 4,503 | 5,732 |
| 8 | July 2, 2018 14:30 | July 3, 2018 10:45 | 20h 15m | 4,323 | 6,736 |
| 9 | April 12, 2018 03:30 | April 12, 2018 11:45 | 8h 15m | 4,048 | 2,961 |
| 10 | May 9, 2018 15:15 | May 10, 2018 11:30 | 20h 15m | 4,047 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 258 reached 100+ customers, 41 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 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 |
| Southern California Edison Co | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 0.87 | 71 min | 0.72 |
| 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 91% of California's customers in 2018; 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, 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/santa-barbara-county