When will the power be back in Monterey County, CA?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · California
No significant county-wide outage reported in Monterey County, CA right now.
⚠️ Heat Advisory in effect for this area — conditions that can cause outages. This page updates about every 15 minutes.
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Elsewhere in California: 12,104 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 1:45 PM PDT.
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Who serves Monterey County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Pacific Gas & Electric, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Central Coast Community Energy also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Monterey County, CA
Last significant outage: Oct 1, 2026 — peaked at 3,134 customers, restored in ~8 hr (heat event).
Across the 37 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 6.3 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 22, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Monterey County, CA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,375 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 28 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~7.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~63,153 customers out in June 2023, restored after about 1.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2024.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track in Monterey County
Communities in Monterey County include Salinas, Seaside, Soledad, Marina, Greenfield, Pacific Grove, King City and Gonzales. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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