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2021 Sutter County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Sutter County, CA went without power for an average of 5.2 hours, a total of 221K customer-hours (California average 6.6 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 57 California counties and 1291st 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 Sutter 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 | April 8, 2021 16:15 | April 10, 2021 06:45 | 1d 14h | 4,986 | 15K |
| 2 | January 27, 2021 00:45 | January 31, 2021 04:00 | 4d 3h | 4,418 | 82K |
| 3 | October 11, 2021 09:15 | October 12, 2021 04:45 | 19h 30m | 3,537 | 12K |
| 4 | October 28, 2021 11:45 | October 29, 2021 01:15 | 13h 30m | 3,461 | 1,896 |
| 5 | May 8, 2021 11:30 | May 9, 2021 05:00 | 17h 30m | 3,211 | 10K |
| 6 | April 14, 2021 23:15 | April 15, 2021 03:00 | 3h 45m | 3,151 | 3,386 |
| 7 | October 24, 2021 12:00 | October 26, 2021 00:30 | 1d 12h | 3,075 | 14K |
| 8 | December 13, 2021 16:00 | December 15, 2021 03:45 | 1d 11h | 2,765 | 7,354 |
| 9 | February 4, 2021 16:15 | February 5, 2021 07:45 | 15h 30m | 1,821 | 1,113 |
| 10 | January 25, 2021 11:00 | January 25, 2021 21:45 | 10h 45m | 1,791 | 3,541 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 62 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Sutter 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 |
| 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 95% of California's customers in 2021; 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, 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/sutter-county