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2019 San Luis Obispo County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in San Luis Obispo County, CA went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 582K customer-hours (California average 9.6 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 57 California counties and 1173rd 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 Luis Obispo 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 | November 11, 2019 14:45 | November 13, 2019 08:30 | 1d 17h | 19,404 | 19K |
| 2 | February 2, 2019 05:45 | February 7, 2019 15:30 | 5d 9h | 7,994 | 84K |
| 3 | February 23, 2019 18:30 | February 25, 2019 04:45 | 1d 10h | 6,839 | 31K |
| 4 | August 1, 2019 08:15 | August 2, 2019 07:00 | 22h 45m | 4,940 | 13K |
| 5 | April 19, 2019 14:45 | April 21, 2019 03:30 | 1d 12h | 4,938 | 14K |
| 6 | May 6, 2019 15:15 | May 7, 2019 09:45 | 18h 30m | 3,982 | 2,299 |
| 7 | July 20, 2019 10:30 | July 20, 2019 12:15 | 1h 45m | 3,472 | 3,473 |
| 8 | October 19, 2019 14:45 | October 23, 2019 05:45 | 3d 15h | 3,330 | 5,433 |
| 9 | September 30, 2019 14:30 | October 3, 2019 01:30 | 2d 11h | 3,220 | 6,728 |
| 10 | September 12, 2019 13:30 | September 15, 2019 01:30 | 2d 12h | 3,206 | 20K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 176 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 San Luis Obispo 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 ÷ 125,727 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 Luis Obispo County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), San Luis Obispo 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-luis-obispo-county