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2018 Amador County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Amador County, CA went without power for an average of 21.4 hours, a total of 364K customer-hours (California average 3.7 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 57 California counties and 262nd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Amador County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 15, 2018 00:30 | October 17, 2018 04:30 | 2d 4h | 13,107 | 329K |
| 2 | June 11, 2018 15:15 | June 13, 2018 00:30 | 1d 9h | 2,971 | 6,881 |
| 3 | October 19, 2018 19:30 | October 20, 2018 00:45 | 5h 15m | 2,932 | 5,561 |
| 4 | October 4, 2018 13:45 | October 4, 2018 14:00 | 15m | 1,909 | 477 |
| 5 | December 1, 2018 17:45 | December 1, 2018 21:15 | 3h 30m | 1,779 | 1,337 |
| 6 | December 29, 2018 17:45 | December 29, 2018 19:45 | 2h | 623 | 857 |
| 7 | December 17, 2018 06:30 | December 17, 2018 11:45 | 5h 15m | 561 | 2,161 |
| 8 | December 2, 2018 16:00 | December 3, 2018 01:45 | 9h 45m | 490 | 285 |
| 9 | August 9, 2018 14:15 | August 9, 2018 15:15 | 1h | 488 | 123 |
| 10 | November 25, 2018 06:30 | November 25, 2018 07:15 | 45m | 372 | 279 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 20 reached 100+ customers, 5 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Amador County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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. | 2018 | 5.0 hrs | 1.18 | 2.1 hrs | 1.08 |
| Kirkwood Meadows PUD | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 91% of California's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 17,050 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. Amador County has data for 2015, 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Amador County, CA annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/california/amador-county