When will the power be back in Mountain View, CA?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Mountain View is a city of about 87,316 residents in Santa Clara County.
Pacific Gas & Electric has reported outages for Mountain View by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-07-29) — so when Mountain View 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 Mountain View:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Mountain View: the closest other places we track are Los Altos, about 2 miles to the southwest; Sunnyvale, about 3 miles to the east; Cupertino, about 6 miles to the south; and Santa Clara, about 7 miles to the east. Also nearby: Menlo Park (7 mi NW), Saratoga (10 mi S), Fremont (10 mi NE), Milpitas (11 mi E), Campbell (11 mi SE), Redwood City (11 mi NW), San Carlos (12 mi NW) and Los Gatos (14 mi SE).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Union City (14 mi); northeast toward Pleasanton (21 mi); east toward Patterson (51 mi); southeast toward San Jose (14 mi); south toward Scotts Valley (24 mi); west toward Half Moon Bay (20 mi); and northwest toward Belmont (14 mi).
Who serves Mountain View?
We track live outage data from Pacific Gas & Electric and Silicon Valley Power in Santa Clara County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. City of Palo Alto also serves parts of Santa Clara County — we don't yet read its own live outage map.
Mountain View's last tracked outage began Oct 7, peaked at 368 customers out, and was restored in 3 hours. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 4 hours.
- Oct 7 — 368 customers out, restored in 3 hours
- Sep 30 — 115 customers out, restored in 8 hours
- Sep 28 — 80 customers out, restored in 9 hours
- Sep 27 — 821 customers out, restored in 40 minutes
County context: across all of Santa Clara County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 14.8 hr. The full record for Santa Clara County
Common questions
How do I check the power outage status in Mountain View, CA?
To check your own street, search a Mountain View ZIP code — 94035, 94039, 94040, 94041, 94042 or 94043 — and the map opens on that area.
Does this page show Mountain View specifically, or the whole county?
Both, and for Mountain View we have the city-level view: Pacific Gas & Electric has published outages for Mountain View under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-07-29. When Mountain View is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the Santa Clara County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes Mountain View.
