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2020 San Benito County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in San Benito County, CA went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 83K customer-hours (California average 6.3 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 57 California counties and 1838th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in San Benito County, 2020
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 7, 2020 00:00 | September 9, 2020 14:30 | 2d 14h | 6,709 | 40K |
| 2 | September 9, 2020 18:00 | September 10, 2020 18:30 | 1d | 4,792 | 2,558 |
| 3 | March 16, 2020 19:45 | March 17, 2020 08:00 | 12h 15m | 2,102 | 1,437 |
| 4 | December 23, 2020 08:45 | December 23, 2020 09:15 | 30m | 1,948 | 974 |
| 5 | July 25, 2020 04:45 | July 25, 2020 11:45 | 7h | 1,179 | 4,971 |
| 6 | January 16, 2020 17:30 | January 16, 2020 20:15 | 2h 45m | 1,177 | 1,137 |
| 7 | August 16, 2020 00:00 | August 17, 2020 23:45 | 1d 23h | 753 | 5,373 |
| 8 | January 28, 2020 12:00 | January 28, 2020 16:30 | 4h 30m | 736 | 295 |
| 9 | June 28, 2020 13:15 | June 28, 2020 14:15 | 1h | 696 | 696 |
| 10 | September 6, 2020 21:15 | September 6, 2020 22:15 | 1h | 696 | 696 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 40 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 2020, 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. | 2020 | 7.4 hrs | 1.34 | 2.3 hrs | 1.04 |
| 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 94% of California's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/california/san-benito-county