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2023 Plumas County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Plumas County, CA went without power for an average of 22.2 hours, a total of 205K customer-hours (California average 7.9 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 57 California counties and 350th 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 Plumas 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 | September 30, 2023 04:45 | October 1, 2023 19:30 | 1d 14h | 10,354 | 40K |
| 2 | March 30, 2023 14:45 | March 31, 2023 02:45 | 12h | 3,406 | 23K |
| 3 | May 1, 2023 16:15 | May 2, 2023 00:00 | 7h 45m | 2,599 | 1,448 |
| 4 | October 28, 2023 20:15 | October 29, 2023 03:30 | 7h 15m | 2,265 | 8,095 |
| 5 | May 2, 2023 22:45 | May 3, 2023 18:00 | 19h 15m | 1,877 | 3,875 |
| 6 | August 28, 2023 10:30 | August 28, 2023 11:30 | 1h | 1,856 | 1,559 |
| 7 | August 17, 2023 07:45 | August 17, 2023 12:15 | 4h 30m | 1,851 | 8,330 |
| 8 | May 30, 2023 00:30 | May 30, 2023 12:00 | 11h 30m | 1,826 | 4,062 |
| 9 | June 12, 2023 01:30 | June 12, 2023 11:15 | 9h 45m | 1,704 | 2,299 |
| 10 | March 14, 2023 23:45 | March 15, 2023 00:30 | 45m | 1,703 | 426 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 68 reached 100+ customers, 25 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| 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 n/a of California's customers in 2023; 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, 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/plumas-county