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2020 Marin County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Marin County, CA went without power for an average of 8.3 hours, a total of 941K customer-hours (California average 6.3 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 57 California counties and 920th 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 Marin 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 | August 14, 2020 15:30 | August 19, 2020 07:15 | 4d 15h | 51,695 | 237K |
| 2 | October 26, 2020 01:45 | October 27, 2020 22:15 | 1d 20h | 14,842 | 349K |
| 3 | October 31, 2020 13:00 | November 1, 2020 05:45 | 16h 45m | 5,883 | 11K |
| 4 | July 28, 2020 14:30 | July 29, 2020 11:15 | 20h 45m | 4,945 | 4,024 |
| 5 | July 9, 2020 14:45 | July 10, 2020 02:45 | 12h | 4,885 | 2,920 |
| 6 | February 9, 2020 15:15 | February 13, 2020 00:15 | 3d 9h | 4,612 | 15K |
| 7 | November 13, 2020 07:00 | November 14, 2020 19:15 | 1d 12h | 4,221 | 13K |
| 8 | December 10, 2020 21:00 | December 10, 2020 21:30 | 30m | 4,143 | 1,050 |
| 9 | December 15, 2020 15:15 | December 15, 2020 22:45 | 7h 30m | 4,053 | 2,736 |
| 10 | April 13, 2020 01:30 | April 13, 2020 23:45 | 22h 15m | 4,011 | 4,948 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 164 reached 100+ customers, 30 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 Marin 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 |
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 ÷ 113,044 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. Marin County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Marin 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/marin-county