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2021 El Dorado County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in El Dorado County, CA went without power for an average of 64.7 hours, a total of 6.2M customer-hours (California average 6.6 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 57 California counties and 127th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in El Dorado County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 26, 2021 04:30 | December 31, 2021 00:15 | 4d 19h | 27,392 | 1.8M |
| 2 | December 13, 2021 06:45 | December 22, 2021 05:45 | 8d 23h | 18,467 | 583K |
| 3 | July 26, 2021 13:15 | July 29, 2021 23:45 | 3d 10h | 11,254 | 30K |
| 4 | October 21, 2021 05:00 | October 31, 2021 02:00 | 9d 21h | 11,082 | 185K |
| 5 | December 22, 2021 13:45 | December 26, 2021 03:15 | 3d 13h | 9,796 | 41K |
| 6 | April 29, 2021 12:30 | April 29, 2021 23:15 | 10h 45m | 7,991 | 9,402 |
| 7 | August 22, 2021 06:15 | October 15, 2021 09:15 | 54d 3h | 7,317 | 2.6M |
| 8 | January 24, 2021 23:45 | January 30, 2021 04:15 | 5d 4h | 6,057 | 118K |
| 9 | November 2, 2021 11:15 | November 23, 2021 03:45 | 20d 16h | 6,046 | 52K |
| 10 | August 15, 2021 03:45 | August 16, 2021 09:00 | 1d 5h | 4,758 | 22K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 117 reached 100+ customers, 47 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 El Dorado County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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. | 2021 | 10.4 hrs | 1.84 | 3.6 hrs | 1.32 |
| Liberty Utilities | 2021 | 16.8 hrs | 4.60 | 11.7 hrs | 3.86 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 95% of California's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 95,672 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. El Dorado County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), El Dorado County, CA annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/california/el-dorado-county