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2022 San Benito County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in San Benito County, CA went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 52K customer-hours (California average 4.9 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 57 California counties and 2312th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in San Benito County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 2, 2022 14:00 | May 3, 2022 01:15 | 11h 15m | 1,400 | 1,295 |
| 2 | December 11, 2022 00:30 | December 11, 2022 05:30 | 5h | 1,296 | 2,867 |
| 3 | August 28, 2022 01:00 | August 28, 2022 04:30 | 3h 30m | 1,194 | 3,863 |
| 4 | August 6, 2022 09:15 | August 6, 2022 10:30 | 1h 15m | 1,193 | 1,491 |
| 5 | August 26, 2022 15:15 | August 26, 2022 22:00 | 6h 45m | 1,193 | 1,097 |
| 6 | July 19, 2022 16:15 | July 20, 2022 01:00 | 8h 45m | 697 | 331 |
| 7 | November 23, 2022 00:30 | November 23, 2022 10:45 | 10h 15m | 642 | 1,046 |
| 8 | July 27, 2022 11:15 | July 27, 2022 22:15 | 11h | 640 | 766 |
| 9 | June 15, 2022 13:15 | June 16, 2022 04:00 | 14h 45m | 570 | 200 |
| 10 | July 21, 2022 23:30 | July 24, 2022 23:30 | 3d | 392 | 5,646 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 43 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 2022, 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. | 2022 | 5.4 hrs | 1.78 | 4.3 hrs | 1.63 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/california/san-benito-county