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2020 Sutter County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Sutter County, CA went without power for an average of 5.7 hours, a total of 243K customer-hours (California average 6.3 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 57 California counties and 1283rd 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 Sutter 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 17, 2020 14:45 | August 19, 2020 01:45 | 1d 11h | 16,528 | 159K |
| 2 | December 17, 2020 10:00 | December 18, 2020 04:00 | 18h | 7,598 | 4,315 |
| 3 | September 24, 2020 21:00 | September 25, 2020 20:15 | 23h 15m | 3,159 | 983 |
| 4 | April 28, 2020 14:30 | April 29, 2020 01:30 | 11h | 3,153 | 2,665 |
| 5 | December 14, 2020 13:30 | December 14, 2020 16:30 | 3h | 3,151 | 2,776 |
| 6 | June 1, 2020 22:45 | June 2, 2020 10:15 | 11h 30m | 2,538 | 1,917 |
| 7 | March 20, 2020 02:45 | March 20, 2020 20:15 | 17h 30m | 2,518 | 5,959 |
| 8 | July 1, 2020 12:30 | July 1, 2020 12:45 | 15m | 2,469 | 617 |
| 9 | December 23, 2020 00:30 | December 23, 2020 11:30 | 11h | 2,208 | 1,320 |
| 10 | September 8, 2020 14:45 | September 9, 2020 04:30 | 13h 45m | 1,682 | 515 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 62 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Sutter 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 42,323 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. Sutter County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sutter 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/sutter-county