When will the power be back in Santa Barbara, CA?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Santa Barbara is a city of about 87,291 residents in Santa Barbara County.
Southern California Edison has reported outages for Santa Barbara by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-09-18) — so when Santa Barbara 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 Santa Barbara:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Santa Barbara: the closest other places we track are Goleta, about 9 miles to the west; Carpinteria, about 11 miles to the east; Oxnard, about 32 miles to the southeast; and Port Hueneme, about 34 miles to the southeast. Also nearby: Santa Paula (37 mi E), Camarillo (41 mi E), Fillmore (45 mi E), Moorpark (48 mi E), Thousand Oaks (50 mi E), Santa Maria (55 mi NW), Simi Valley (56 mi E) and Agoura Hills (57 mi E).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Wasco (84 mi); northeast toward Arvin (74 mi); east toward Calabasas (62 mi); southeast toward Malibu (61 mi); and northwest toward Arroyo Grande (70 mi).
Who serves Santa Barbara?
We track live outage data from Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison in Santa Barbara County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. City of Lompoc also serves parts of Santa Barbara County — we don't yet read its own live outage map.
Santa Barbara's last tracked outage began Oct 8, peaked at 46 customers out, and was restored in 2 hours. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 8 hours.
- Oct 8 — 46 customers out, restored in 2 hours
- Oct 5 — 59 customers out, restored in 8 hours
- Oct 3 — 184 customers out, restored in 7 hours
- Oct 2 — 192 customers out, restored in 3 hours
County context: across all of Santa Barbara County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 8.8 hr. The full record for Santa Barbara County
Common questions
When will my power be back on in Santa Barbara, CA?
It depends on the cause and how many crews are working; the live status at the top of this page shows the current outlook. For context from Santa Barbara's own record: across the 6 outages this site has tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 8 hours — the outage-history panel above lists them.
How do I check the power outage status in Santa Barbara, CA?
To check your own street, search a Santa Barbara ZIP code — 93101, 93102, 93103, 93105, 93106, 93107 or any of the other 11 — and the map opens on that area.
Does this page show Santa Barbara specifically, or the whole county?
Both, and for Santa Barbara we have the city-level view: Southern California Edison has published outages for Santa Barbara under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-09-18. When Santa Barbara is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the Santa Barbara County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes Santa Barbara.
