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2019 San Bernardino County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in San Bernardino County, CA went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 5.1M customer-hours (California average 9.6 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 57 California counties and 905th 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 Bernardino 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 | December 26, 2019 11:30 | December 31, 2019 00:15 | 4d 12h | 36,385 | 775K |
| 2 | November 27, 2019 11:15 | December 5, 2019 18:15 | 8d 7h | 31,276 | 671K |
| 3 | March 19, 2019 13:45 | March 19, 2019 14:00 | 15m | 30,278 | 7,570 |
| 4 | February 22, 2019 15:45 | March 8, 2019 06:15 | 13d 14h | 19,867 | 101K |
| 5 | March 8, 2019 09:30 | March 10, 2019 05:00 | 1d 19h | 16,631 | 60K |
| 6 | February 4, 2019 13:45 | February 9, 2019 06:15 | 4d 16h | 15,986 | 150K |
| 7 | November 19, 2019 05:30 | November 22, 2019 13:45 | 3d 8h | 14,980 | 122K |
| 8 | August 16, 2019 10:45 | August 18, 2019 04:30 | 1d 17h | 13,805 | 16K |
| 9 | October 5, 2019 15:15 | October 6, 2019 00:45 | 9h 30m | 12,780 | 17K |
| 10 | October 12, 2019 14:15 | October 14, 2019 09:30 | 1d 19h | 12,664 | 70K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 217 reached 100+ customers, 156 reached 1,000+ customers, 15 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 Bernardino 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 |
| Southern California Edison Co | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 0.87 | 71 min | 0.72 |
| Arizona Public Service Co | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.08 | 86 min | 0.84 |
| Bear Valley Electric Service | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 2.14 | 74 min | 0.85 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Aha Macav Power Service | - | - | - | - | - |
| Colorado River Indian Irr Proj | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Colton - (CA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Needles - (CA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Victorville - (CA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| DOD USMC Marine Air Ground Combat | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rancho Cucamonga Municipal Utility | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 840,555 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 Bernardino County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), San Bernardino 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-bernardino-county