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2023 Humboldt County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Humboldt County, CA went without power for an average of 43.4 hours, a total of 2.6M customer-hours (California average 7.9 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 57 California counties and 134th 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 Humboldt 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 | January 3, 2023 16:45 | January 10, 2023 01:00 | 6d 8h | 17,785 | 746K |
| 2 | February 21, 2023 15:15 | March 13, 2023 04:30 | 19d 13h | 10,069 | 841K |
| 3 | January 11, 2023 01:30 | January 17, 2023 05:00 | 6d 3h | 7,385 | 140K |
| 4 | February 2, 2023 17:15 | February 4, 2023 14:45 | 1d 21h | 5,436 | 15K |
| 5 | February 4, 2023 18:30 | February 7, 2023 14:30 | 2d 20h | 5,137 | 64K |
| 6 | September 24, 2023 21:45 | September 28, 2023 02:30 | 3d 4h | 4,653 | 47K |
| 7 | November 18, 2023 16:00 | November 19, 2023 05:15 | 13h 15m | 3,900 | 12K |
| 8 | March 27, 2023 14:30 | March 30, 2023 00:00 | 2d 9h | 3,791 | 57K |
| 9 | August 20, 2023 15:00 | September 2, 2023 09:45 | 12d 18h | 3,755 | 84K |
| 10 | April 2, 2023 15:00 | April 3, 2023 01:00 | 10h | 3,567 | 8,460 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 180 reached 100+ customers, 40 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 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 |
| 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 n/a of California's customers in 2023; 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, 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/humboldt-county