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2020 Mendocino County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Mendocino County, CA went without power for an average of 8.6 hours, a total of 335K customer-hours (California average 6.3 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 57 California counties and 898th 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 Mendocino 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 15, 2020 01:30 | August 15, 2020 04:45 | 3h 15m | 3,766 | 7,533 |
| 2 | March 15, 2020 09:15 | March 18, 2020 02:30 | 2d 17h | 2,620 | 22K |
| 3 | December 26, 2020 23:45 | December 27, 2020 04:15 | 4h 30m | 2,480 | 784 |
| 4 | April 1, 2020 14:30 | April 3, 2020 02:15 | 1d 11h | 2,452 | 3,714 |
| 5 | January 16, 2020 11:30 | January 21, 2020 00:30 | 4d 13h | 2,317 | 82K |
| 6 | July 28, 2020 22:00 | July 29, 2020 12:30 | 14h 30m | 1,894 | 7,984 |
| 7 | July 7, 2020 16:00 | July 8, 2020 08:00 | 16h | 1,805 | 3,640 |
| 8 | February 17, 2020 17:30 | February 17, 2020 18:00 | 30m | 1,682 | 421 |
| 9 | August 17, 2020 15:45 | August 19, 2020 02:45 | 1d 11h | 1,658 | 5,976 |
| 10 | November 21, 2020 20:00 | November 21, 2020 23:15 | 3h 15m | 1,391 | 2,050 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 121 reached 100+ customers, 18 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Mendocino 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 |
| City of Ukiah - (CA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 39,041 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. Mendocino County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mendocino 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/mendocino-county