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2025 Santa Barbara County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Santa Barbara County, CA went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (California average 7.6 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 57 California counties and 1299th 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 Santa Barbara 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 | September 14, 2025 23:45 | September 17, 2025 04:15 | 2d 4h | 8,559 | 84K |
| 2 | March 17, 2025 17:15 | March 18, 2025 06:45 | 13h 30m | 7,847 | 5,921 |
| 3 | May 6, 2025 15:45 | May 7, 2025 22:00 | 1d 6h | 7,202 | 12K |
| 4 | November 17, 2025 13:45 | November 20, 2025 02:45 | 2d 13h | 6,669 | 23K |
| 5 | September 23, 2025 04:30 | September 26, 2025 13:00 | 3d 8h | 6,346 | 30K |
| 6 | July 19, 2025 17:45 | July 20, 2025 15:30 | 21h 45m | 6,240 | 15K |
| 7 | September 17, 2025 15:15 | September 20, 2025 00:30 | 2d 9h | 5,569 | 21K |
| 8 | May 15, 2025 05:15 | May 16, 2025 10:45 | 1d 5h | 5,307 | 12K |
| 9 | October 28, 2025 15:15 | October 31, 2025 22:15 | 3d 7h | 5,222 | 23K |
| 10 | July 3, 2025 20:00 | July 10, 2025 03:00 | 6d 7h | 4,895 | 25K |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 219 reached 100+ customers, 55 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 Santa Barbara 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/santa-barbara-county