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2021 San Benito County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in San Benito County, CA went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 71K customer-hours (California average 6.6 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 57 California counties and 1979th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in San Benito County, 2021
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 18, 2021 03:15 | October 18, 2021 17:30 | 14h 15m | 1,686 | 2,613 |
| 2 | January 27, 2021 08:00 | February 15, 2021 21:45 | 19d 13h | 1,189 | 11K |
| 3 | May 9, 2021 00:45 | May 9, 2021 08:30 | 7h 45m | 1,186 | 3,088 |
| 4 | October 11, 2021 14:45 | October 13, 2021 01:30 | 1d 10h | 1,021 | 10K |
| 5 | October 16, 2021 15:00 | October 16, 2021 23:00 | 8h | 883 | 502 |
| 6 | September 28, 2021 02:45 | September 28, 2021 18:45 | 16h | 836 | 2,703 |
| 7 | October 28, 2021 21:45 | October 29, 2021 01:30 | 3h 45m | 799 | 559 |
| 8 | April 12, 2021 09:15 | April 12, 2021 16:15 | 7h | 653 | 801 |
| 9 | January 25, 2021 02:15 | January 25, 2021 14:00 | 11h 45m | 643 | 1,168 |
| 10 | October 22, 2021 15:45 | October 23, 2021 20:00 | 1d 4h | 642 | 2,352 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 43 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 2021, 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. | 2021 | 10.4 hrs | 1.84 | 3.6 hrs | 1.32 |
| 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 95% of California's customers in 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/california/san-benito-county