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2020 Amador County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Amador County, CA went without power for an average of 57.8 hours, a total of 985K customer-hours (California average 6.3 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 57 California counties and 137th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Amador County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 28, 2020 01:45 | September 28, 2020 21:30 | 19h 45m | 11,300 | 132K |
| 2 | October 25, 2020 22:30 | October 28, 2020 00:15 | 2d 1h | 11,164 | 240K |
| 3 | September 8, 2020 01:30 | September 10, 2020 05:30 | 2d 4h | 8,695 | 265K |
| 4 | March 16, 2020 04:45 | March 21, 2020 03:45 | 4d 23h | 7,044 | 254K |
| 5 | May 18, 2020 20:00 | May 18, 2020 21:00 | 1h | 5,887 | 2,126 |
| 6 | March 24, 2020 01:30 | March 24, 2020 09:15 | 7h 45m | 4,764 | 10K |
| 7 | January 10, 2020 00:45 | January 10, 2020 01:45 | 1h | 2,999 | 2,999 |
| 8 | January 27, 2020 16:45 | January 28, 2020 02:45 | 10h | 2,865 | 6,435 |
| 9 | August 3, 2020 16:45 | August 4, 2020 02:00 | 9h 15m | 2,319 | 2,402 |
| 10 | January 28, 2020 05:15 | January 28, 2020 14:45 | 9h 30m | 2,044 | 3,332 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 54 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Amador County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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. | 2020 | 7.4 hrs | 1.34 | 2.3 hrs | 1.04 |
| 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 94% of California's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/california/amador-county