When will the power be back in Santa Cruz County, CA?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Santa Cruz County, CA right now.
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Elsewhere in California: 1,541 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 9:16 PM PDT.
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Who serves Santa Cruz County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Pacific Gas & Electric, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Central Coast Community Energy also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Santa Cruz County, CA
Last significant outage: Oct 9, 2026 — peaked at 818 customers, restored in ~3 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 38 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.4 hr (median).
Every outage behind these figures (38)
| Began | Peak out | Restored in | Weather |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 2026 | 818 | ~3 hr | no severe weather |
| Oct 8, 2026 | 566 | ~4 hr | heat event |
| Oct 8, 2026 | 242 | ~9.8 hr | heat event |
| Oct 7, 2026 | 5,782 | ~12.5 hr | heat event |
| Oct 6, 2026 | 1,079 | ~7 hr | heat event |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 972 | ~1.2 hr | heat event |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 346 | ~4.8 hr | heat event |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 213 | ~1.5 hr | heat event |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 375 | ~27 hr | heat event |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 329 | ~1.8 hr | no severe weather |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 903 | ~1.7 hr | no severe weather |
| Sep 29, 2026 | 286 | ~3.3 hr | no severe weather |
| Sep 28, 2026 | 2,257 | ~1 hr | no severe weather |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 498 | ~13.5 hr | no severe weather |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 322 | ~48 min | no severe weather |
| Sep 14, 2026 | 806 | ~2.5 hr | no severe weather |
| Sep 13, 2026 | 213 | ~3.5 hr | no severe weather |
| Sep 13, 2026 | 1,892 | ~5.7 hr | no severe weather |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1,097 | ~48 min | no severe weather |
| Sep 11, 2026 | 2,197 | ~2 hr | no severe weather |
| Sep 10, 2026 | 216 | ~12.3 hr | heat event |
| Sep 8, 2026 | 6,931 | ~37.5 hr | heat event |
| Sep 7, 2026 | 2,255 | ~5 hr | heat event |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2,203 | ~42 min | weather alert |
| Sep 4, 2026 | 417 | ~12.8 hr | weather alert |
| Sep 3, 2026 | 421 | ~12 hr | weather alert |
| Sep 1, 2026 | 3,524 | ~2.2 hr | no severe weather |
| Aug 28, 2026 | 930 | ~1.5 hr | weather alert |
| Aug 27, 2026 | 206 | ~4.2 hr | no severe weather |
| Aug 25, 2026 | 376 | ~16 hr | no severe weather |
| Aug 24, 2026 | 2,427 | ~7.7 hr | no severe weather |
| Aug 23, 2026 | 1,817 | ~2 hr | no severe weather |
| Aug 21, 2026 | 333 | ~17.3 hr | no severe weather |
| Aug 21, 2026 | 968 | ~3 hr | no severe weather |
| Aug 20, 2026 | 214 | ~1.3 hr | no severe weather |
| Aug 16, 2026 | 650 | ~42 min | no severe weather |
| Aug 14, 2026 | 3,115 | ~1.5 hr | no severe weather |
| Aug 12, 2026 | 2,159 | ~3.7 hr | weather alert |
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 12, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Santa Cruz County, CA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,248 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 32 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~7.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~89,427 customers out in August 2020, restored after about 6.8 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2022.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025, replayed through the same event rules as our tracking archive above with two differences: outages shorter than
half an hour count here, and a reading above twice the county's customers or households is capped. They cover a far longer period
than we have been tracking — a different set of outages, so the two typical times differ. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities with their own pages in Santa Cruz County
Communities in Santa Cruz County include Watsonville, Scotts Valley, Capitola, Amesti, Aptos, Aptos Hills-Larkin Valley, Ben Lomond and Bonny Doon. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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