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2019 Santa Barbara County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Santa Barbara County, CA went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (California average 9.6 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 57 California counties and 934th 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 Santa Barbara 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 | January 17, 2019 16:30 | January 18, 2019 00:15 | 7h 45m | 22,471 | 7,397 |
| 2 | February 24, 2019 02:15 | February 25, 2019 10:45 | 1d 8h | 20,617 | 51K |
| 3 | September 9, 2019 15:30 | September 10, 2019 07:45 | 16h 15m | 12,792 | 29K |
| 4 | February 2, 2019 01:45 | February 6, 2019 14:15 | 4d 12h | 11,727 | 136K |
| 5 | January 14, 2019 12:15 | January 15, 2019 14:15 | 1d 2h | 11,699 | 23K |
| 6 | March 5, 2019 16:00 | March 7, 2019 11:45 | 1d 19h | 10,916 | 71K |
| 7 | September 7, 2019 02:45 | September 7, 2019 03:30 | 45m | 8,731 | 2,866 |
| 8 | January 7, 2019 16:15 | January 8, 2019 01:15 | 9h | 7,406 | 2,656 |
| 9 | March 3, 2019 08:15 | March 4, 2019 03:45 | 19h 30m | 7,253 | 2,005 |
| 10 | October 1, 2019 11:30 | October 2, 2019 13:15 | 1d 1h | 5,885 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 246 reached 100+ customers, 55 reached 1,000+ customers, 6 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 Santa Barbara 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 |
| Central Coast Community Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lompoc - (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 ÷ 192,080 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. Santa Barbara County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Santa Barbara 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/santa-barbara-county