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2021 Santa Cruz County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Santa Cruz County, CA went without power for an average of 22.3 hours, a total of 2.6M customer-hours (California average 6.6 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 57 California counties and 388th 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 Cruz 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 18, 2021 14:30 | February 2, 2021 05:15 | 14d 14h | 23,302 | 1.3M |
| 2 | October 11, 2021 15:15 | October 15, 2021 20:30 | 4d 5h | 9,421 | 97K |
| 3 | February 24, 2021 16:15 | February 26, 2021 03:30 | 1d 11h | 7,309 | 34K |
| 4 | October 24, 2021 14:45 | October 30, 2021 05:30 | 5d 14h | 6,847 | 194K |
| 5 | September 9, 2021 04:15 | September 15, 2021 13:00 | 6d 8h | 6,496 | 131K |
| 6 | May 30, 2021 13:00 | May 30, 2021 16:30 | 3h 30m | 6,142 | 3,230 |
| 7 | January 7, 2021 17:15 | January 8, 2021 04:15 | 11h | 6,126 | 3,506 |
| 8 | August 5, 2021 03:45 | August 6, 2021 14:00 | 1d 10h | 5,820 | 61K |
| 9 | September 20, 2021 16:30 | September 22, 2021 05:45 | 1d 13h | 5,616 | 49K |
| 10 | June 18, 2021 00:15 | June 18, 2021 21:30 | 21h 15m | 5,173 | 15K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 152 reached 100+ customers, 50 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Cruz 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 ÷ 118,299 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 Cruz County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Santa Cruz 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-cruz-county