When will the power be back in Santa Clara, CA?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Santa Clara is a city of about 133,132 residents in Santa Clara County.
Pacific Gas & Electric has reported outages for Santa Clara by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-07-27) — so when Santa Clara 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 Clara:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Santa Clara: the closest other places we track are Sunnyvale, about 4 miles to the northwest; Cupertino, about 5 miles to the southwest; Campbell, about 6 miles to the south; and Milpitas, about 6 miles to the northeast. Also nearby: Mountain View (7 mi W), Los Altos (7 mi W), Saratoga (7 mi SW), San Jose (8 mi SE), Los Gatos (9 mi S), Fremont (11 mi N), Menlo Park (13 mi NW) and Union City (17 mi N).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Hayward (20 mi); northeast toward Livermore (25 mi); east toward Patterson (45 mi); southeast toward Morgan Hill (24 mi); south toward Scotts Valley (21 mi); west toward Half Moon Bay (27 mi); and northwest toward Redwood City (17 mi).
Who serves Santa Clara?
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.
Santa Clara's last tracked outage began Sep 2, peaked at 107 customers out, and was restored in 3 hours. Across the 5 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 6 hours.
- Sep 2 — 107 customers out, restored in 3 hours
- Aug 27 — 113 customers out, restored in 6 hours
- Aug 26 — 30 customers out, restored in 7 hours
- Aug 19 — 53 customers out, restored in an hour
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
When will my power be back on in Santa Clara, 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 Clara's own record: across the 5 outages this site has tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 6 hours — the outage-history panel above lists them.
How do I check the power outage status in Santa Clara, CA?
To check your own street, search a Santa Clara ZIP code — 95050, 95051, 95052, 95053, 95054, 95055 or any of the other 1 — and the map opens on that area.
Does this page show Santa Clara specifically, or the whole county?
Both, and for Santa Clara we have the city-level view: Pacific Gas & Electric has published outages for Santa Clara under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-07-27. When Santa Clara 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 Santa Clara.
