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2023 Santa Barbara County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Santa Barbara County, CA went without power for an average of 6.7 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (California average 7.9 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 57 California counties and 1180th 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 Santa Barbara 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 04:30 | March 19, 2023 04:30 | 26d | 12,480 | 237K |
| 2 | April 13, 2023 15:15 | April 17, 2023 08:30 | 3d 17h | 7,867 | 11K |
| 3 | June 20, 2023 14:15 | June 22, 2023 02:00 | 1d 11h | 6,506 | 7,781 |
| 4 | December 19, 2023 17:30 | December 23, 2023 04:45 | 3d 11h | 6,270 | 21K |
| 5 | August 10, 2023 12:30 | August 11, 2023 13:00 | 1d | 6,143 | 12K |
| 6 | March 19, 2023 05:30 | April 13, 2023 11:15 | 25d 5h | 5,779 | 116K |
| 7 | February 7, 2023 15:15 | February 9, 2023 03:00 | 1d 11h | 5,419 | 7,044 |
| 8 | June 19, 2023 14:15 | June 20, 2023 01:45 | 11h 30m | 5,418 | 2,473 |
| 9 | November 7, 2023 16:15 | November 8, 2023 06:45 | 14h 30m | 5,282 | 3,602 |
| 10 | September 1, 2023 02:30 | September 2, 2023 03:15 | 1d | 5,276 | 35K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 170 reached 100+ customers, 56 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| 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 n/a of California's customers in 2023; 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, 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/santa-barbara-county