When will the power be back in San Benito County, CA?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in San Benito County, CA right now.
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Elsewhere in California: 16,590 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 4:15 PM PDT.
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Who serves San Benito 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 — San Benito County, CA
⚡ Power here was restored about 31 hours ago — the outage peaked at 550 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 9, 2026 — peaked at 550 customers, restored in ~30 min (no severe weather).
Across the 12 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 1.3 hr (median).
Every outage behind these figures (12)
| Began | Peak out | Restored in | Weather |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 2026 | 550 | ~30 min | no severe weather |
| Oct 8, 2026 | 206 | ~5 hr | heat event |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 527 | ~2.3 hr | heat event |
| Sep 27, 2026 | 558 | ~30 min | no severe weather |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 206 | ~6.2 hr | no severe weather |
| Sep 3, 2026 | 519 | ~1.7 hr | no severe weather |
| Aug 27, 2026 | 652 | ~1 hr | no severe weather |
| Aug 26, 2026 | 652 | ~1 hr | no severe weather |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 551 | ~10.3 hr | no severe weather |
| Aug 19, 2026 | 516 | ~30 min | no severe weather |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 553 | ~42 min | no severe weather |
| Jul 30, 2026 | 325 | ~1.5 hr | no severe weather |
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 30, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — San Benito County, CA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
208 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 1 major event of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~2.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in fall.
That is shorter than the California norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~8.8 hr.
Largest on record: ~12,335 customers out in June 2025, restored after about 5.5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025, replayed through the same event rules as our tracking archive above with two differences: outages shorter than
half an hour count here, and a reading above twice the county's customers or households is capped. They cover a far longer period
than we have been tracking — a different set of outages, so the two typical times differ. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities with their own pages in San Benito County
Communities in San Benito County include Hollister, San Juan Bautista, Ridgemark, San Benito-Bitterwater and Tres Pinos. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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