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2025 Monterey County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Monterey County, CA went without power for an average of 11.7 hours, a total of 2.3M customer-hours (California average 7.6 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 57 California counties and 674th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Monterey County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 23, 2025 20:45 | January 1, 2026 00:00 | 8d 3h | 22,739 | 1.0M |
| 2 | May 5, 2025 13:45 | May 10, 2025 07:30 | 4d 17h | 21,835 | 97K |
| 3 | June 23, 2025 02:30 | June 25, 2025 07:00 | 2d 4h | 14,327 | 9,787 |
| 4 | September 25, 2025 14:15 | September 28, 2025 11:00 | 2d 20h | 10,977 | 15K |
| 5 | November 1, 2025 15:00 | November 4, 2025 07:15 | 2d 16h | 10,203 | 46K |
| 6 | May 18, 2025 15:30 | May 20, 2025 10:15 | 1d 18h | 9,244 | 22K |
| 7 | August 26, 2025 14:30 | August 29, 2025 10:15 | 2d 19h | 8,721 | 33K |
| 8 | March 17, 2025 12:30 | March 19, 2025 07:45 | 1d 19h | 7,895 | 23K |
| 9 | May 10, 2025 15:00 | May 11, 2025 07:15 | 16h 15m | 7,769 | 36K |
| 10 | February 9, 2025 15:45 | February 11, 2025 10:45 | 1d 19h | 7,155 | 18K |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 165 reached 100+ customers, 52 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 Monterey County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 195,575 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. Monterey County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Monterey County, CA annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/california/monterey-county