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2024 Santa Barbara County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Santa Barbara County, CA went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 907K customer-hours (California average 6.1 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 57 California counties and 1680th 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 Santa Barbara 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 | February 4, 2024 11:15 | February 13, 2024 05:00 | 8d 17h | 14,203 | 124K |
| 2 | December 24, 2024 14:15 | December 26, 2024 10:00 | 1d 19h | 10,474 | 30K |
| 3 | June 27, 2024 14:15 | June 29, 2024 02:30 | 1d 12h | 10,163 | 20K |
| 4 | August 26, 2024 03:00 | August 27, 2024 02:00 | 23h | 6,193 | 9,119 |
| 5 | April 12, 2024 02:30 | April 12, 2024 11:45 | 9h 15m | 5,162 | 29K |
| 6 | June 24, 2024 15:15 | June 25, 2024 03:30 | 12h 15m | 5,023 | 3,928 |
| 7 | December 12, 2024 15:00 | December 13, 2024 03:15 | 12h 15m | 4,967 | 6,221 |
| 8 | May 24, 2024 09:15 | June 19, 2024 06:30 | 25d 21h | 4,699 | 46K |
| 9 | February 13, 2024 11:15 | February 13, 2024 11:45 | 30m | 4,157 | 2,079 |
| 10 | August 15, 2024 15:30 | August 18, 2024 20:45 | 3d 5h | 4,000 | 16K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 220 reached 100+ customers, 53 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 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 |
| Southern California Edison Co | 2024 | 2.6 hrs | 0.99 | 1.7 hrs | 0.90 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/santa-barbara-county