When will the power be back in San Luis Obispo, CA?
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San Luis Obispo is a city of about 49,729 residents in San Luis Obispo County.
Pacific Gas & Electric has reported outages for San Luis Obispo by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-09-18) — so when San Luis Obispo is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.
ZIP codes in San Luis Obispo:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around San Luis Obispo: the closest other places we track are Grover Beach, about 10 miles to the south; Arroyo Grande, about 11 miles to the southeast; Morro Bay, about 13 miles to the northwest; and Atascadero, about 15 miles to the north. Also nearby: Santa Maria (26 mi SE), Avenal (61 mi NE), King City (71 mi N), Goleta (73 mi SE), Wasco (77 mi E), Santa Barbara (80 mi SE), Delano (86 mi NE) and Lemoore (86 mi NE).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Kerman (106 mi); northeast toward Hanford (93 mi); east toward Bakersfield (92 mi); southeast toward Carpinteria (87 mi); and northwest toward Soledad (90 mi).
Who serves San Luis Obispo?
We track live outage data from Pacific Gas & Electric in San Luis Obispo County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. Central Coast Community Energy also serves parts of San Luis Obispo County — we don't yet read its own live outage map.
San Luis Obispo's last tracked outage began Oct 7, peaked at 93 customers out, and was restored in 4 hours. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 3 hours.
- Oct 7 — 93 customers out, restored in 4 hours
- Oct 7 — 1,431 customers out, restored in 2 hours
- Sep 14 — 39 customers out, restored in 3 hours
- Sep 11 — 27 customers out, restored in 2 hours
County context: across all of San Luis Obispo County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 6.3 hr. The full record for San Luis Obispo County
Common questions
How do I check the power outage status in San Luis Obispo, CA?
To check your own street, search a San Luis Obispo ZIP code — 93401, 93403, 93405, 93406, 93407, 93408 or any of the other 2 — and the map opens on that area.
Does this page show San Luis Obispo specifically, or the whole county?
Both, and for San Luis Obispo we have the city-level view: Pacific Gas & Electric has published outages for San Luis Obispo under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-09-18. When San Luis Obispo is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the San Luis Obispo County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes San Luis Obispo.
