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2017 Sacramento County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Sacramento County, CA went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 1.6M customer-hours (California average 2.2 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 47 California counties and 1480th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Sacramento County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 18, 2017 05:00 | January 30, 2017 06:30 | 12d 1h | 76,180 | 583K |
| 2 | February 17, 2017 16:00 | February 20, 2017 03:45 | 2d 11h | 65,760 | 124K |
| 3 | May 2, 2017 13:45 | May 5, 2017 05:45 | 2d 16h | 40,648 | 24K |
| 4 | June 26, 2017 13:15 | June 30, 2017 11:30 | 3d 22h | 39,753 | 36K |
| 5 | April 18, 2017 00:30 | April 20, 2017 05:30 | 2d 5h | 38,290 | 26K |
| 6 | January 1, 2017 00:00 | January 5, 2017 07:30 | 4d 7h | 28,504 | 60K |
| 7 | March 5, 2017 18:45 | March 8, 2017 06:15 | 2d 11h | 25,291 | 19K |
| 8 | April 26, 2017 10:00 | April 27, 2017 11:30 | 1d 1h | 18,752 | 29K |
| 9 | June 21, 2017 14:45 | June 23, 2017 11:00 | 1d 20h | 17,344 | 13K |
| 10 | May 12, 2017 12:30 | May 13, 2017 10:00 | 21h 30m | 16,479 | 17K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 231 reached 100+ customers, 105 reached 1,000+ customers, 20 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 Sacramento County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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. | 2017 | 6.2 hrs | 1.55 | 1.9 hrs | 0.96 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sacramento Municipal Util Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
| SMUD | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 625,566 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. Sacramento County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sacramento County, CA annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/california/sacramento-county