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2020 Humboldt County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Humboldt County, CA went without power for an average of 19.9 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (California average 6.3 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 57 California counties and 431st 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 Humboldt 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 | January 15, 2020 17:45 | January 24, 2020 02:15 | 8d 8h | 65,606 | 664K |
| 2 | June 10, 2020 13:45 | June 11, 2020 04:00 | 14h 15m | 4,322 | 3,777 |
| 3 | July 18, 2020 14:00 | July 18, 2020 22:15 | 8h 15m | 3,887 | 5,561 |
| 4 | October 9, 2020 07:45 | October 10, 2020 04:00 | 20h 15m | 3,872 | 3,820 |
| 5 | January 2, 2020 13:30 | January 3, 2020 11:00 | 21h 30m | 3,777 | 4,164 |
| 6 | August 25, 2020 16:00 | August 26, 2020 11:45 | 19h 45m | 3,510 | 2,763 |
| 7 | May 9, 2020 16:15 | May 10, 2020 03:00 | 10h 45m | 3,509 | 941 |
| 8 | April 2, 2020 19:45 | April 3, 2020 08:00 | 12h 15m | 3,295 | 4,177 |
| 9 | September 27, 2020 23:15 | September 30, 2020 00:45 | 2d 1h | 3,284 | 16K |
| 10 | May 22, 2020 06:45 | May 22, 2020 11:30 | 4h 45m | 3,270 | 2,519 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 160 reached 100+ customers, 49 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 Humboldt 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 |
| Shelter Cove Resort Improvement Dist No. 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 59,962 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. Humboldt County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Humboldt 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/humboldt-county