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2019 Sacramento County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Sacramento County, CA went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (California average 9.6 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 57 California counties and 1762nd 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 Sacramento 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 | January 6, 2019 18:30 | January 10, 2019 14:00 | 3d 19h | 135,474 | 595K |
| 2 | October 15, 2019 14:00 | October 16, 2019 10:30 | 20h 30m | 37,041 | 40K |
| 3 | May 30, 2019 15:15 | June 1, 2019 11:30 | 1d 20h | 31,222 | 50K |
| 4 | November 7, 2019 17:30 | November 8, 2019 06:45 | 13h 15m | 29,530 | 8,372 |
| 5 | December 24, 2019 16:30 | December 25, 2019 05:45 | 13h 15m | 27,213 | 23K |
| 6 | July 17, 2019 14:00 | July 18, 2019 11:15 | 21h 15m | 24,438 | 14K |
| 7 | October 26, 2019 15:15 | November 2, 2019 04:00 | 6d 12h | 23,615 | 164K |
| 8 | November 26, 2019 15:00 | November 28, 2019 06:15 | 1d 15h | 23,335 | 77K |
| 9 | November 2, 2019 14:30 | November 4, 2019 03:45 | 1d 13h | 18,855 | 19K |
| 10 | June 29, 2019 06:30 | June 29, 2019 10:30 | 4h | 18,710 | 37K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 261 reached 100+ customers, 115 reached 1,000+ customers, 15 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 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 |
| 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 93% of California's customers in 2019; 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, 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/sacramento-county