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2022 San Diego County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in San Diego County, CA went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 3.6M customer-hours (California average 4.9 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 57 California counties and 2063rd 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 Diego 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 | October 4, 2022 14:15 | October 5, 2022 05:30 | 15h 15m | 62,342 | 60K |
| 2 | December 24, 2022 20:15 | December 27, 2022 00:15 | 2d 4h | 31,005 | 24K |
| 3 | November 6, 2022 04:45 | November 11, 2022 23:45 | 5d 19h | 17,818 | 174K |
| 4 | August 22, 2022 14:00 | August 26, 2022 01:45 | 3d 11h | 14,559 | 66K |
| 5 | September 3, 2022 18:45 | September 9, 2022 02:15 | 5d 7h | 11,567 | 159K |
| 6 | May 20, 2022 15:00 | May 22, 2022 18:30 | 2d 3h | 10,887 | 41K |
| 7 | August 26, 2022 04:00 | August 28, 2022 22:15 | 2d 18h | 9,285 | 41K |
| 8 | June 29, 2022 14:15 | July 4, 2022 12:00 | 4d 21h | 8,693 | 29K |
| 9 | December 6, 2022 15:15 | December 7, 2022 01:00 | 9h 45m | 8,562 | 4,539 |
| 10 | November 13, 2022 15:45 | November 21, 2022 03:00 | 7d 11h | 8,153 | 45K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 198 reached 100+ customers, 134 reached 1,000+ customers, 6 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 Diego 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 |
| Southern California Edison Co | 2022 | 2.2 hrs | 1.08 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| Imperial Irrigation District | 2022 | 65 min | 0.72 | 55 min | 0.68 |
| San Diego Gas & Electric Co | 2022 | 70 min | 0.59 | 70 min | 0.59 |
| City of Escondido - (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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,362,929 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 Diego County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), San Diego 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-diego-county