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2023 San Benito County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in San Benito County, CA went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 108K customer-hours (California average 7.9 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 57 California counties and 1663rd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in San Benito County, 2023
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 1, 2023 00:45 | January 2, 2023 20:15 | 1d 19h | 1,713 | 2,245 |
| 2 | January 10, 2023 12:45 | January 10, 2023 19:00 | 6h 15m | 1,356 | 2,589 |
| 3 | November 11, 2023 23:15 | November 12, 2023 20:30 | 21h 15m | 1,294 | 2,245 |
| 4 | September 9, 2023 02:15 | September 9, 2023 23:45 | 21h 30m | 1,293 | 2,967 |
| 5 | October 31, 2023 11:45 | November 1, 2023 20:30 | 1d 8h | 1,293 | 4,891 |
| 6 | August 26, 2023 11:15 | August 26, 2023 13:00 | 1h 45m | 1,255 | 2,129 |
| 7 | October 29, 2023 06:00 | October 30, 2023 04:00 | 22h | 1,255 | 3,201 |
| 8 | April 24, 2023 04:15 | April 24, 2023 16:15 | 12h | 1,197 | 2,678 |
| 9 | November 16, 2023 01:30 | November 16, 2023 03:45 | 2h 15m | 1,197 | 2,393 |
| 10 | February 4, 2023 20:15 | February 4, 2023 21:30 | 1h 15m | 1,195 | 1,494 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 63 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 2023, 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. | 2023 | 11.9 hrs | 2.22 | 4.3 hrs | 1.56 |
| 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 n/a of California's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/california/san-benito-county