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2018 Lake County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lake County, CA went without power for an average of 27.0 hours, a total of 766K customer-hours (California average 3.7 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 57 California counties and 208th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lake 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 03:45 | October 17, 2018 01:30 | 1d 21h | 12,139 | 280K |
| 2 | July 29, 2018 00:15 | August 10, 2018 20:45 | 12d 20h | 11,131 | 363K |
| 3 | September 27, 2018 20:00 | September 28, 2018 00:30 | 4h 30m | 4,492 | 17K |
| 4 | September 22, 2018 04:30 | September 22, 2018 20:00 | 15h 30m | 3,494 | 4,593 |
| 5 | September 24, 2018 00:30 | September 24, 2018 05:30 | 5h | 3,000 | 8,608 |
| 6 | August 25, 2018 13:30 | August 26, 2018 10:45 | 21h 15m | 2,596 | 7,155 |
| 7 | September 11, 2018 15:30 | September 11, 2018 21:30 | 6h | 1,557 | 1,445 |
| 8 | June 24, 2018 07:15 | June 27, 2018 06:00 | 2d 22h | 1,373 | 42K |
| 9 | July 19, 2018 12:30 | July 19, 2018 19:45 | 7h 15m | 1,186 | 1,972 |
| 10 | July 16, 2018 02:45 | July 16, 2018 06:45 | 4h | 1,028 | 1,375 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 45 reached 100+ customers, 10 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Lake 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 |
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 ÷ 28,397 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. Lake County has data for 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lake 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/lake-county