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2024 San Benito County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in San Benito County, CA went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 105K customer-hours (California average 6.1 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 57 California counties and 1863rd of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in San Benito County, 2024
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 29, 2024 02:00 | January 29, 2024 04:30 | 2h 30m | 6,129 | 2,476 |
| 2 | December 14, 2024 17:00 | December 16, 2024 05:15 | 1d 12h | 5,234 | 24K |
| 3 | July 6, 2024 00:15 | July 7, 2024 03:15 | 1d 3h | 1,454 | 4,143 |
| 4 | September 5, 2024 00:45 | September 5, 2024 01:00 | 15m | 1,420 | 355 |
| 5 | August 14, 2024 12:15 | August 15, 2024 11:00 | 22h 45m | 1,203 | 2,572 |
| 6 | July 15, 2024 02:00 | July 15, 2024 21:00 | 19h | 1,112 | 2,618 |
| 7 | March 31, 2024 13:30 | March 31, 2024 18:00 | 4h 30m | 1,003 | 2,349 |
| 8 | May 11, 2024 13:30 | May 13, 2024 18:45 | 2d 5h | 995 | 1,200 |
| 9 | August 2, 2024 13:15 | August 2, 2024 17:00 | 3h 45m | 824 | 1,934 |
| 10 | January 3, 2024 03:30 | January 3, 2024 06:30 | 3h | 823 | 2,009 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 64 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 2024, 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. | 2024 | 8.5 hrs | 2.15 | 4.6 hrs | 1.82 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/california/san-benito-county