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2021 Santa Barbara County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Santa Barbara County, CA went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 898K customer-hours (California average 6.6 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 57 California counties and 1396th 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 Santa Barbara 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 | January 7, 2021 15:00 | January 8, 2021 09:15 | 18h 15m | 7,938 | 12K |
| 2 | June 23, 2021 03:00 | June 23, 2021 10:30 | 7h 30m | 6,770 | 11K |
| 3 | March 15, 2021 15:30 | March 16, 2021 09:45 | 18h 15m | 6,548 | 9,003 |
| 4 | December 14, 2021 07:00 | December 17, 2021 03:30 | 2d 20h | 5,426 | 44K |
| 5 | October 21, 2021 05:00 | October 23, 2021 23:45 | 2d 18h | 5,024 | 32K |
| 6 | October 18, 2021 14:00 | October 21, 2021 02:00 | 2d 12h | 5,015 | 12K |
| 7 | April 11, 2021 03:30 | April 12, 2021 02:00 | 22h 30m | 4,836 | 10K |
| 8 | April 14, 2021 16:00 | April 15, 2021 04:45 | 12h 45m | 4,811 | 3,520 |
| 9 | July 7, 2021 15:45 | July 9, 2021 05:45 | 1d 14h | 4,805 | 12K |
| 10 | October 4, 2021 15:30 | October 6, 2021 13:00 | 1d 21h | 4,734 | 8,978 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 259 reached 100+ customers, 59 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 Santa Barbara 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 |
| Southern California Edison Co | 2021 | 3.0 hrs | 1.11 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| 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 95% of California's customers in 2021; 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, 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/santa-barbara-county