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2019 San Benito County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in San Benito County, CA went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 78K customer-hours (California average 9.6 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 57 California counties and 1685th 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 San Benito 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 | June 10, 2019 21:30 | June 11, 2019 07:45 | 10h 15m | 4,485 | 4,707 |
| 2 | March 17, 2019 02:00 | March 17, 2019 02:30 | 30m | 1,891 | 946 |
| 3 | May 14, 2019 21:30 | May 14, 2019 23:45 | 2h 15m | 1,889 | 2,363 |
| 4 | July 26, 2019 01:15 | July 26, 2019 23:45 | 22h 30m | 1,620 | 3,095 |
| 5 | February 2, 2019 16:15 | February 3, 2019 02:00 | 9h 45m | 1,177 | 691 |
| 6 | December 10, 2019 07:30 | December 10, 2019 14:15 | 6h 45m | 1,177 | 851 |
| 7 | July 24, 2019 22:45 | July 25, 2019 13:30 | 14h 45m | 777 | 883 |
| 8 | October 27, 2019 06:30 | October 29, 2019 08:00 | 2d 1h | 670 | 23K |
| 9 | October 27, 2019 03:30 | October 27, 2019 05:45 | 2h 15m | 669 | 1,220 |
| 10 | August 5, 2019 22:15 | August 6, 2019 14:30 | 16h 15m | 657 | 1,113 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 39 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 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 ÷ 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, 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/san-benito-county