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2025 San Benito County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in San Benito County, CA went without power for an average of 5.5 hours, a total of 147K customer-hours (California average 7.6 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 57 California counties and 1375th 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 San Benito 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 | June 23, 2025 13:00 | June 24, 2025 08:30 | 19h 30m | 12,335 | 20K |
| 2 | October 24, 2025 15:45 | October 31, 2025 18:30 | 7d 2h | 5,289 | 11K |
| 3 | December 18, 2025 08:00 | December 18, 2025 10:15 | 2h 15m | 5,288 | 12K |
| 4 | December 24, 2025 07:00 | December 28, 2025 22:30 | 4d 15h | 2,472 | 35K |
| 5 | September 25, 2025 09:15 | September 26, 2025 18:15 | 1d 9h | 2,179 | 3,917 |
| 6 | February 4, 2025 13:15 | February 5, 2025 06:30 | 17h 15m | 2,100 | 5,710 |
| 7 | July 22, 2025 00:15 | July 22, 2025 01:00 | 45m | 1,710 | 682 |
| 8 | January 19, 2025 12:30 | January 19, 2025 21:45 | 9h 15m | 1,521 | 7,670 |
| 9 | September 24, 2025 20:45 | September 25, 2025 04:30 | 7h 45m | 1,203 | 1,076 |
| 10 | September 23, 2025 21:45 | September 23, 2025 22:30 | 45m | 1,202 | 902 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 54 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 San Benito 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 ÷ 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, 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/san-benito-county