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; Palo Alto, about 3 miles to the west; and East Palo Alto, about 6 miles to the northwest. Also nearby: Cupertino (6 mi S), Santa Clara (7 mi E), Menlo Park (7 mi NW), Newark (9 mi N), Saratoga (10 mi S), Fremont (10 mi NE), Milpitas (11 mi E) and Campbell (11 mi SE).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Union City (14 mi); northeast toward Pleasanton (21 mi); southeast toward Los Gatos (14 mi); south toward Scotts Valley (24 mi); west toward Half Moon Bay (20 mi); and northwest toward Redwood City (11 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 Sep 30, peaked at 115 customers out, and was restored in 8 hours. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 4 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
- Sep 22 — 26 customers out, restored in 4 hours
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.
