When will the power be back in Santa Cruz County, CA?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · California
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customer reported out in Santa Cruz County, CA
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
Official restoration time (Pacific Gas & Electric): Oct 4, 7:30 PM PDT
A small number of customers are reported out county-wide — too few for a live restoration estimate. past outages here typically ran ~7 hr, based on 1248 past outages of any size over 12 years of records.
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
Updated 1:56 PM PDT.
11 county-wide trend of customers without power · last 14 hr · tap or hover a point to see its number
Communities with reported outages — from the utilities that publish city-by-city detail for this county
Zayante — 1 customer reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 7:30 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 3, 2026 — peaked at 346 customers, restored in ~4.8 hr (heat event).
Across the 38 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 5, 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 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track 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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