Santa Barbara County, California Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Santa Barbara County, California had 22 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.69 times the US outage time per person and 0.77 times the California rate. It ranks 34 of 55 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

56 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Marhardest months

August and March made up 20% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 15, 2020, reached 20,656 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 9.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated California counties

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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1.5M

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	300,056	166	1
2016	283,584	156	0
2017	735,228	227	1
2018	805,404	408	1
2019	902,406	325	3
2020	963,575	337	4
2021	681,147	306	3
2022	1,041,452	418	5
2023	1,020,852	402	4

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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JanJFebFMarMAprAMayMJunJJulJAugASepSOctONovNDecD

Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Aug 15, 2020	9.0	20,656	158,211
Feb 2, 2019	20.0	11,727	101,232
Mar 2, 2022	9.5	9,917	79,397
Dec 5, 2017	1.5	56,650	70,302
Mar 6, 2019	15.5	10,916	62,426

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.