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2024 Santa Cruz County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Santa Cruz County, CA went without power for an average of 24.0 hours, a total of 2.8M customer-hours (California average 6.1 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 57 California counties and 414th 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 Cruz 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 04:00 | February 12, 2024 11:00 | 8d 7h | 36,292 | 1.5M |
| 2 | December 14, 2024 08:15 | December 19, 2024 10:30 | 5d 2h | 25,554 | 318K |
| 3 | November 6, 2024 07:30 | November 8, 2024 06:30 | 1d 23h | 16,132 | 136K |
| 4 | August 14, 2024 15:30 | August 15, 2024 12:15 | 20h 45m | 11,846 | 47K |
| 5 | October 17, 2024 12:30 | October 20, 2024 04:45 | 2d 16h | 11,734 | 52K |
| 6 | September 10, 2024 15:45 | September 13, 2024 10:00 | 2d 18h | 8,208 | 47K |
| 7 | November 24, 2024 20:00 | November 27, 2024 01:45 | 2d 5h | 6,571 | 15K |
| 8 | October 4, 2024 01:45 | October 7, 2024 00:15 | 2d 22h | 6,486 | 47K |
| 9 | July 8, 2024 00:30 | July 10, 2024 02:45 | 2d 2h | 6,390 | 9,458 |
| 10 | November 23, 2024 03:15 | November 24, 2024 19:15 | 1d 16h | 6,365 | 21K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 199 reached 100+ customers, 59 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Cruz 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 ÷ 118,299 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 Cruz County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Santa Cruz 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-cruz-county