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2016 Placer County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Placer County, CA went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 122 customer-hours (California average 2.5 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 20 California counties and 2379th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Placer County, 2016
The 9 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 14, 2016 00:00 | April 14, 2016 01:45 | 1h 45m | 231 | 116 |
| 2 | January 5, 2016 17:30 | January 5, 2016 18:30 | 1h | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | January 23, 2016 18:45 | January 23, 2016 19:00 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | January 25, 2016 17:00 | January 25, 2016 18:15 | 1h 15m | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | February 21, 2016 21:45 | February 21, 2016 22:15 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | March 15, 2016 19:30 | March 15, 2016 22:00 | 2h 30m | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | March 19, 2016 00:15 | March 19, 2016 01:15 | 1h | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | March 21, 2016 22:15 | March 21, 2016 22:30 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | April 15, 2016 03:00 | April 15, 2016 03:15 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 1 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Placer County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Gas & Electric Co. | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.10 | 1.8 hrs | 1.02 |
| Liberty Utilities | 2016 | 3.2 hrs | 1.48 | 2.8 hrs | 1.44 |
| Truckee Donner P U D | 2016 | 7.3 hrs | 1.48 | - | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sacramento Municipal Util Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Roseville - (CA) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of California's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 187,525 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Placer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Placer County, CA annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/california/placer-county