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2022 Santa Cruz County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Santa Cruz County, CA went without power for an average of 10.2 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (California average 4.9 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 57 California counties and 708th 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 Cruz 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 | November 30, 2022 14:45 | December 1, 2022 07:00 | 16h 15m | 17,663 | 42K |
| 2 | December 10, 2022 10:30 | December 15, 2022 07:30 | 4d 21h | 12,136 | 234K |
| 3 | April 10, 2022 18:45 | April 14, 2022 01:45 | 3d 7h | 8,979 | 35K |
| 4 | April 21, 2022 11:15 | April 23, 2022 01:30 | 1d 14h | 6,447 | 15K |
| 5 | June 17, 2022 13:00 | June 17, 2022 23:30 | 10h 30m | 6,418 | 27K |
| 6 | December 29, 2022 16:30 | January 1, 2023 00:00 | 2d 7h | 6,372 | 63K |
| 7 | July 13, 2022 15:00 | July 15, 2022 09:00 | 1d 18h | 6,336 | 26K |
| 8 | August 27, 2022 14:45 | August 27, 2022 16:00 | 1h 15m | 6,135 | 4,795 |
| 9 | September 6, 2022 08:15 | September 7, 2022 02:45 | 18h 30m | 5,814 | 9,110 |
| 10 | August 30, 2022 13:30 | August 31, 2022 04:45 | 15h 15m | 5,777 | 18K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 189 reached 100+ customers, 62 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 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 ÷ 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, 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-cruz-county