County annual report · FIPS 06063
2019 Plumas County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Plumas County, CA went without power for an average of 48.9 hours, a total of 452K customer-hours (California average 9.6 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 57 California counties and 60th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Plumas County, 2019
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 27, 2019 06:30 | October 29, 2019 08:00 | 2d 1h | 11,918 | 141K |
| 2 | February 5, 2019 01:30 | February 6, 2019 07:30 | 1d 6h | 5,217 | 27K |
| 3 | February 26, 2019 07:45 | March 3, 2019 01:45 | 4d 18h | 5,009 | 107K |
| 4 | January 6, 2019 19:15 | January 8, 2019 03:45 | 1d 8h | 4,905 | 24K |
| 5 | February 13, 2019 14:45 | February 14, 2019 15:15 | 1d | 2,650 | 3,637 |
| 6 | July 25, 2019 22:15 | July 26, 2019 21:15 | 23h | 1,672 | 18K |
| 7 | August 15, 2019 03:30 | August 15, 2019 05:00 | 1h 30m | 1,659 | 1,659 |
| 8 | November 27, 2019 02:00 | November 27, 2019 05:00 | 3h | 1,570 | 864 |
| 9 | February 11, 2019 03:00 | February 11, 2019 07:15 | 4h 15m | 920 | 2,583 |
| 10 | October 27, 2019 00:15 | October 27, 2019 05:45 | 5h 30m | 912 | 4,058 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 53 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Plumas County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Liberty Utilities | 2018 | 4.8 hrs | 2.19 | 4.8 hrs | 2.19 |
| Plumas-Sierra Rural Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 93% of California's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,230 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. Plumas County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Plumas County, CA annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/california/plumas-county