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2020 Placer County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Placer County, CA went without power for an average of 8.4 hours, a total of 1.6M customer-hours (California average 6.3 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 57 California counties and 917th 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 Placer 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 28, 2020 07:30 | November 2, 2020 20:15 | 66d 12h | 17,195 | 997K |
| 2 | July 27, 2020 15:45 | July 29, 2020 03:45 | 1d 12h | 11,423 | 44K |
| 3 | May 18, 2020 21:00 | May 20, 2020 01:00 | 1d 4h | 8,014 | 33K |
| 4 | July 2, 2020 03:00 | July 3, 2020 03:00 | 1d | 5,811 | 9,736 |
| 5 | March 11, 2020 15:45 | March 12, 2020 01:15 | 9h 30m | 5,353 | 4,173 |
| 6 | June 6, 2020 20:30 | June 7, 2020 03:15 | 6h 45m | 5,250 | 6,904 |
| 7 | August 16, 2020 15:15 | August 18, 2020 03:00 | 1d 11h | 4,364 | 23K |
| 8 | March 15, 2020 03:00 | March 23, 2020 00:30 | 7d 21h | 3,995 | 256K |
| 9 | August 14, 2020 23:15 | August 15, 2020 06:45 | 7h 30m | 3,690 | 4,189 |
| 10 | July 20, 2020 15:15 | July 22, 2020 12:30 | 1d 21h | 3,676 | 15K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 130 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 Placer 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 |
| Liberty Utilities | 2020 | 4.0 hrs | 1.87 | 4.0 hrs | 1.87 |
| Truckee Donner P U D | 2018 | 5.0 hrs | 0.88 | - | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sacramento Municipal Util Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Roseville - (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 ÷ 187,525 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. Placer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Placer 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/placer-county