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2020 San Bernardino County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in San Bernardino County, CA went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 5.4M customer-hours (California average 6.3 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 57 California counties and 1182nd 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 Bernardino 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 | October 20, 2020 13:45 | October 31, 2020 10:00 | 10d 20h | 62,238 | 1.2M |
| 2 | September 5, 2020 16:00 | September 18, 2020 05:15 | 12d 13h | 32,929 | 387K |
| 3 | November 7, 2020 11:00 | November 9, 2020 13:00 | 2d 2h | 29,109 | 186K |
| 4 | January 7, 2020 16:30 | January 8, 2020 11:15 | 18h 45m | 21,569 | 23K |
| 5 | July 5, 2020 22:30 | July 8, 2020 13:00 | 2d 14h | 21,271 | 90K |
| 6 | April 2, 2020 02:00 | April 2, 2020 02:15 | 15m | 20,518 | 5,130 |
| 7 | April 6, 2020 01:30 | April 7, 2020 11:00 | 1d 9h | 20,512 | 13K |
| 8 | October 31, 2020 11:45 | November 2, 2020 07:30 | 1d 19h | 17,792 | 14K |
| 9 | September 2, 2020 07:00 | September 4, 2020 11:45 | 2d 4h | 16,620 | 24K |
| 10 | November 12, 2020 13:00 | November 16, 2020 01:45 | 3d 12h | 13,961 | 62K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 224 reached 100+ customers, 158 reached 1,000+ customers, 21 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 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 |
| Southern California Edison Co | 2020 | 3.4 hrs | 1.06 | 1.5 hrs | 0.87 |
| Arizona Public Service Co | 2020 | 84 min | 0.86 | 79 min | 0.85 |
| Bear Valley Electric Service | 2020 | 7.1 hrs | 4.56 | 55 min | 0.59 |
| 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 94% of California's customers in 2020; 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, 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-bernardino-county