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2022 Humboldt County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Humboldt County, CA went without power for an average of 38.6 hours, a total of 2.3M customer-hours (California average 4.9 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 57 California counties and 117th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Humboldt County, 2022
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 19, 2022 15:15 | December 23, 2022 03:00 | 3d 11h | 71,791 | 1.3M |
| 2 | June 4, 2022 15:30 | June 7, 2022 02:45 | 2d 11h | 10,082 | 12K |
| 3 | December 9, 2022 17:30 | December 12, 2022 07:00 | 2d 13h | 7,027 | 69K |
| 4 | December 24, 2022 19:45 | January 1, 2023 00:00 | 7d 4h | 6,970 | 189K |
| 5 | January 1, 2022 00:00 | January 14, 2022 02:45 | 13d 2h | 5,337 | 178K |
| 6 | June 28, 2022 07:30 | June 29, 2022 03:30 | 20h | 5,279 | 3,233 |
| 7 | September 20, 2022 15:15 | September 21, 2022 06:30 | 15h 15m | 4,979 | 5,650 |
| 8 | July 27, 2022 14:30 | July 29, 2022 02:45 | 1d 12h | 3,239 | 2,386 |
| 9 | September 29, 2022 14:00 | September 30, 2022 22:15 | 1d 8h | 3,107 | 15K |
| 10 | May 2, 2022 13:30 | May 4, 2022 04:45 | 1d 15h | 2,947 | 17K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 166 reached 100+ customers, 39 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 Humboldt County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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. | 2022 | 5.4 hrs | 1.78 | 4.3 hrs | 1.63 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/california/humboldt-county