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2023 El Dorado County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in El Dorado County, CA went without power for an average of 34.0 hours, a total of 3.3M customer-hours (California average 7.9 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 57 California counties and 195th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in El Dorado County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 27, 2023 02:00 | March 24, 2023 02:15 | 25d | 24,131 | 953K |
| 2 | January 1, 2023 00:00 | January 10, 2023 01:00 | 9d 1h | 17,532 | 450K |
| 3 | January 10, 2023 12:45 | January 10, 2023 19:00 | 6h 15m | 10,959 | 58K |
| 4 | January 11, 2023 01:30 | January 26, 2023 10:15 | 15d 8h | 8,647 | 322K |
| 5 | November 3, 2023 00:30 | November 8, 2023 10:45 | 5d 10h | 8,278 | 582K |
| 6 | June 27, 2023 14:15 | June 28, 2023 03:00 | 12h 45m | 5,983 | 14K |
| 7 | June 27, 2023 10:15 | June 27, 2023 11:15 | 1h | 5,543 | 4,581 |
| 8 | August 5, 2023 11:45 | August 5, 2023 12:15 | 30m | 5,540 | 2,770 |
| 9 | August 28, 2023 10:15 | September 1, 2023 03:15 | 3d 17h | 5,468 | 51K |
| 10 | August 16, 2023 15:15 | August 18, 2023 00:00 | 1d 8h | 5,032 | 7,742 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 194 reached 100+ customers, 74 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 2023, 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. | 2023 | 11.9 hrs | 2.22 | 4.3 hrs | 1.56 |
| Liberty Utilities | 2023 | 4.4 hrs | 1.97 | 4.4 hrs | 1.97 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of California's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/california/el-dorado-county