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2022 Santa Barbara County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Santa Barbara County, CA went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (California average 4.9 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 57 California counties and 1109th 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 Santa Barbara 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 | March 2, 2022 16:30 | March 3, 2022 08:15 | 15h 45m | 9,917 | 79K |
| 2 | December 5, 2022 15:15 | December 7, 2022 06:00 | 1d 14h | 9,361 | 22K |
| 3 | October 19, 2022 14:45 | October 20, 2022 11:00 | 20h 15m | 6,805 | 10K |
| 4 | November 3, 2022 14:30 | November 4, 2022 10:00 | 19h 30m | 5,733 | 6,984 |
| 5 | April 25, 2022 12:30 | April 25, 2022 12:45 | 15m | 5,702 | 1,426 |
| 6 | May 25, 2022 15:45 | May 26, 2022 10:00 | 18h 15m | 5,376 | 14K |
| 7 | March 7, 2022 14:00 | March 9, 2022 01:15 | 1d 11h | 5,287 | 23K |
| 8 | September 27, 2022 15:45 | October 4, 2022 11:45 | 6d 20h | 5,258 | 43K |
| 9 | April 11, 2022 14:15 | April 13, 2022 07:15 | 1d 17h | 5,084 | 20K |
| 10 | August 2, 2022 15:00 | August 4, 2022 03:45 | 1d 12h | 4,952 | 20K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 241 reached 100+ customers, 66 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 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 |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/santa-barbara-county