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2018 Sacramento County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Sacramento County, CA went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 674K customer-hours (California average 3.7 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 57 California counties and 2279th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Sacramento 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 | April 16, 2018 14:30 | April 19, 2018 09:15 | 2d 18h | 39,477 | 25K |
| 2 | July 22, 2018 15:00 | July 23, 2018 03:45 | 12h 45m | 17,065 | 22K |
| 3 | April 25, 2018 14:45 | April 26, 2018 07:30 | 16h 45m | 16,706 | 13K |
| 4 | June 21, 2018 10:30 | June 24, 2018 06:15 | 2d 19h | 15,730 | 17K |
| 5 | June 2, 2018 13:15 | June 3, 2018 05:30 | 16h 15m | 15,239 | 8,662 |
| 6 | June 3, 2018 15:15 | June 4, 2018 02:00 | 10h 45m | 14,796 | 19K |
| 7 | July 17, 2018 13:00 | July 18, 2018 07:45 | 18h 45m | 13,289 | 5,203 |
| 8 | November 22, 2018 15:45 | November 25, 2018 12:15 | 2d 20h | 11,291 | 19K |
| 9 | May 10, 2018 16:00 | May 13, 2018 03:00 | 2d 11h | 11,224 | 24K |
| 10 | November 26, 2018 03:15 | November 27, 2018 03:45 | 1d | 9,306 | 6,207 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 268 reached 100+ customers, 95 reached 1,000+ customers, 9 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 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 |
| 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 91% of California's customers in 2018; 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, 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/sacramento-county