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2022 Plumas County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Plumas County, CA went without power for an average of 23.7 hours, a total of 219K customer-hours (California average 4.9 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 57 California counties and 267th 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 Plumas 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 | August 17, 2022 15:15 | August 17, 2022 19:30 | 4h 15m | 9,025 | 13K |
| 2 | April 17, 2022 01:15 | April 17, 2022 04:15 | 3h | 9,022 | 15K |
| 3 | May 15, 2022 08:45 | May 15, 2022 14:45 | 6h | 3,396 | 20K |
| 4 | July 30, 2022 23:00 | July 31, 2022 06:00 | 7h | 3,220 | 14K |
| 5 | December 1, 2022 17:30 | December 1, 2022 19:15 | 1h 45m | 2,598 | 3,248 |
| 6 | May 4, 2022 16:45 | May 5, 2022 13:45 | 21h | 1,879 | 3,397 |
| 7 | July 30, 2022 15:00 | July 30, 2022 17:45 | 2h 45m | 1,628 | 4,343 |
| 8 | December 4, 2022 00:30 | December 4, 2022 21:30 | 21h | 1,402 | 2,792 |
| 9 | June 22, 2022 18:00 | June 22, 2022 18:15 | 15m | 1,397 | 349 |
| 10 | September 4, 2022 22:45 | September 5, 2022 04:30 | 5h 45m | 1,390 | 4,173 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 74 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 Plumas 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 |
| Liberty Utilities | 2022 | 25.5 hrs | 5.19 | 7.9 hrs | 3.55 |
| Plumas-Sierra Rural Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,230 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. Plumas County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Plumas 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/plumas-county