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2025 Santa Cruz County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Santa Cruz County, CA went without power for an average of 14.0 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (California average 7.6 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 57 California counties and 548th 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 Cruz 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 16:30 | January 1, 2026 00:00 | 8d 7h | 26,822 | 724K |
| 2 | September 15, 2025 14:30 | September 16, 2025 02:15 | 11h 45m | 26,653 | 12K |
| 3 | August 12, 2025 13:45 | August 14, 2025 00:30 | 1d 10h | 17,758 | 30K |
| 4 | March 10, 2025 00:45 | March 10, 2025 03:15 | 2h 30m | 11,142 | 28K |
| 5 | June 13, 2025 14:15 | June 13, 2025 21:30 | 7h 15m | 10,857 | 38K |
| 6 | May 27, 2025 10:00 | May 28, 2025 07:15 | 21h 15m | 8,786 | 15K |
| 7 | May 24, 2025 15:30 | May 25, 2025 14:45 | 23h 15m | 6,551 | 4,028 |
| 8 | November 5, 2025 13:15 | November 6, 2025 04:15 | 15h | 6,491 | 11K |
| 9 | August 6, 2025 12:00 | August 8, 2025 15:00 | 2d 3h | 6,453 | 19K |
| 10 | July 25, 2025 13:00 | July 29, 2025 11:00 | 3d 22h | 6,417 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 193 reached 100+ customers, 61 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 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 ÷ 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, 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-cruz-county