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2019 San Diego County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in San Diego County, CA went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 4.2M customer-hours (California average 9.6 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 57 California counties and 1600th 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 Diego 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 | September 30, 2019 07:15 | October 4, 2019 09:45 | 4d 2h | 32,212 | 59K |
| 2 | October 28, 2019 14:00 | November 3, 2019 09:00 | 5d 19h | 27,587 | 770K |
| 3 | November 12, 2019 15:15 | November 13, 2019 12:30 | 21h 15m | 24,699 | 88K |
| 4 | October 20, 2019 03:45 | October 27, 2019 00:45 | 6d 21h | 24,293 | 722K |
| 5 | May 31, 2019 15:15 | June 2, 2019 01:00 | 1d 9h | 18,854 | 21K |
| 6 | March 19, 2019 15:30 | March 25, 2019 09:15 | 5d 17h | 11,779 | 58K |
| 7 | October 14, 2019 14:30 | October 19, 2019 23:45 | 5d 9h | 11,354 | 68K |
| 8 | January 18, 2019 15:30 | January 23, 2019 04:15 | 4d 12h | 11,181 | 46K |
| 9 | September 3, 2019 15:15 | September 6, 2019 00:00 | 2d 8h | 8,719 | 47K |
| 10 | December 2, 2019 06:45 | December 15, 2019 05:30 | 12d 22h | 7,764 | 85K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 208 reached 100+ customers, 124 reached 1,000+ customers, 8 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 Diego 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 |
| Imperial Irrigation District | 2018 | 59 min | 0.58 | 59 min | 0.58 |
| San Diego Gas & Electric Co | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 0.66 | 78 min | 0.63 |
| City of Escondido - (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 93% of California's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,362,929 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 Diego County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), San Diego 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-diego-county