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2021 Humboldt County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Humboldt County, CA went without power for an average of 32.5 hours, a total of 1.9M customer-hours (California average 6.6 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 57 California counties and 279th 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 Humboldt 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 | January 24, 2021 18:30 | February 2, 2021 17:30 | 8d 23h | 11,724 | 494K |
| 2 | July 11, 2021 15:15 | July 11, 2021 23:45 | 8h 30m | 9,886 | 6,293 |
| 3 | December 25, 2021 09:30 | December 31, 2021 00:15 | 5d 14h | 7,791 | 455K |
| 4 | November 9, 2021 00:30 | November 11, 2021 03:45 | 2d 3h | 6,139 | 86K |
| 5 | October 24, 2021 04:00 | October 26, 2021 02:45 | 1d 22h | 5,976 | 26K |
| 6 | March 29, 2021 15:45 | March 31, 2021 10:00 | 1d 18h | 5,114 | 27K |
| 7 | October 21, 2021 05:00 | October 24, 2021 02:30 | 2d 21h | 4,645 | 21K |
| 8 | January 12, 2021 13:15 | January 13, 2021 08:45 | 19h 30m | 3,879 | 7,715 |
| 9 | August 9, 2021 14:15 | August 11, 2021 09:00 | 1d 18h | 3,678 | 18K |
| 10 | September 18, 2021 13:00 | September 21, 2021 05:30 | 2d 16h | 3,528 | 21K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 164 reached 100+ customers, 48 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 Humboldt 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 |
| Shelter Cove Resort Improvement Dist No. 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 59,962 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. Humboldt County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Humboldt 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/humboldt-county