When will the power be back in Santa Maria, CA?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Santa Maria is a city of about 111,346 residents in Santa Barbara County.
None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for Santa Maria by name, so this page reports the Santa Barbara County county-wide view, which covers Santa Maria. If a serving utility does name Santa Maria during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.
ZIP codes in Santa Maria:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Santa Maria: the closest other places we track are Arroyo Grande, about 15 miles to the northwest; Grover Beach, about 16 miles to the northwest; Lompoc, about 19 miles to the south; and San Luis Obispo, about 26 miles to the northwest. Also nearby: Morro Bay (38 mi NW), Atascadero (40 mi N), Goleta (48 mi SE), Paso Robles (49 mi N), Santa Barbara (55 mi SE), Carpinteria (63 mi SE), Wasco (76 mi NE) and Ventura (77 mi SE).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Avenal (78 mi); northeast toward Shafter (80 mi); east toward Bakersfield (85 mi); southeast toward Oxnard (86 mi); and northwest toward King City (97 mi).
Who serves Santa Maria?
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 Maria's last tracked outage began Oct 1, peaked at 225 customers out, and was restored in an hour. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 3 hours.
- Oct 1 — 225 customers out, restored in an hour
- Sep 28 — 25 customers out, restored in 2 hours
- Sep 21 — 65 customers out, restored in 4 hours
- Sep 18 — 144 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 Maria, 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 Maria's own record: across the 6 outages this site has tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 3 hours — the outage-history panel above lists them.
How do I check the power outage status in Santa Maria, CA?
To check your own street, search a Santa Maria ZIP code — 93454, 93455, 93456, 93457 or 93458 — and the map opens on that area.
