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2020 Santa Barbara County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Santa Barbara County, CA went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (California average 6.3 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 57 California counties and 1229th 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 Santa Barbara 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 | August 15, 2020 15:30 | August 20, 2020 10:30 | 4d 19h | 20,656 | 201K |
| 2 | April 28, 2020 15:00 | April 28, 2020 21:45 | 6h 45m | 10,840 | 2,963 |
| 3 | August 20, 2020 13:15 | August 21, 2020 06:15 | 17h | 6,318 | 7,988 |
| 4 | December 14, 2020 16:15 | December 15, 2020 03:30 | 11h 15m | 6,274 | 7,840 |
| 5 | April 15, 2020 14:15 | April 15, 2020 22:45 | 8h 30m | 4,861 | 1,540 |
| 6 | March 5, 2020 14:45 | March 7, 2020 12:30 | 1d 21h | 4,741 | 4,361 |
| 7 | July 22, 2020 15:00 | July 23, 2020 05:30 | 14h 30m | 4,633 | 1,971 |
| 8 | May 6, 2020 15:30 | May 7, 2020 08:15 | 16h 45m | 4,586 | 3,507 |
| 9 | December 18, 2020 16:00 | December 19, 2020 03:30 | 11h 30m | 4,554 | 6,265 |
| 10 | September 28, 2020 15:30 | October 4, 2020 05:15 | 5d 13h | 4,506 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 253 reached 100+ customers, 68 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 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 |
| 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 94% of California's customers in 2020; 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, 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/santa-barbara-county