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2023 San Diego County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2023, 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 7.9 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 57 California counties and 2070th 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 Diego 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 | February 21, 2023 14:00 | March 2, 2023 14:45 | 9d | 21,564 | 421K |
| 2 | August 20, 2023 15:45 | August 29, 2023 11:45 | 8d 20h | 15,732 | 122K |
| 3 | January 15, 2023 10:30 | January 22, 2023 22:00 | 7d 11h | 14,402 | 137K |
| 4 | June 5, 2023 09:00 | June 11, 2023 00:00 | 5d 15h | 14,175 | 138K |
| 5 | May 5, 2023 14:45 | May 12, 2023 12:15 | 6d 21h | 12,955 | 105K |
| 6 | November 6, 2023 03:45 | November 8, 2023 00:00 | 1d 20h | 11,042 | 13K |
| 7 | January 8, 2023 04:45 | January 8, 2023 15:15 | 10h 30m | 9,151 | 35K |
| 8 | March 21, 2023 16:00 | March 27, 2023 02:45 | 5d 10h | 9,093 | 32K |
| 9 | July 30, 2023 12:00 | July 31, 2023 22:45 | 1d 10h | 7,877 | 22K |
| 10 | January 23, 2023 14:30 | January 27, 2023 10:15 | 3d 19h | 7,572 | 42K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 175 reached 100+ customers, 122 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 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 |
| Southern California Edison Co | 2023 | 1.9 hrs | 1.04 | 1.6 hrs | 0.94 |
| Imperial Irrigation District | 2023 | 2.7 hrs | 0.94 | 71 min | 0.75 |
| San Diego Gas & Electric Co | 2023 | 71 min | 0.59 | 71 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 n/a of California's customers in 2023; 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, 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-diego-county