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2019 Monterey County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Monterey County, CA went without power for an average of 8.6 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (California average 9.6 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 57 California counties and 644th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Monterey County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 10, 2019 22:30 | February 14, 2019 15:15 | 3d 16h | 16,662 | 204K |
| 2 | February 1, 2019 11:15 | February 8, 2019 11:30 | 7d | 16,477 | 320K |
| 3 | January 15, 2019 02:15 | January 17, 2019 06:45 | 2d 4h | 12,592 | 52K |
| 4 | October 27, 2019 06:30 | October 29, 2019 08:00 | 2d 1h | 10,778 | 337K |
| 5 | July 29, 2019 14:00 | July 31, 2019 04:30 | 1d 14h | 10,476 | 17K |
| 6 | August 21, 2019 14:30 | August 23, 2019 06:00 | 1d 15h | 7,971 | 16K |
| 7 | November 25, 2019 04:45 | December 11, 2019 14:00 | 16d 9h | 7,808 | 141K |
| 8 | October 16, 2019 13:30 | October 17, 2019 11:00 | 21h 30m | 6,973 | 10K |
| 9 | May 28, 2019 03:15 | May 29, 2019 06:30 | 1d 3h | 6,107 | 8,442 |
| 10 | February 16, 2019 01:45 | February 22, 2019 08:45 | 6d 7h | 5,586 | 90K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 142 reached 100+ customers, 53 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Monterey County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 93% of California's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 195,575 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. Monterey County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Monterey County, CA annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/california/monterey-county