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2023 Sacramento County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Sacramento County, CA went without power for an average of 14.4 hours, a total of 9.0M customer-hours (California average 7.9 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 57 California counties and 609th 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 Sacramento 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 1, 2023 00:00 | January 17, 2023 06:00 | 16d 6h | 348,829 | 8.1M |
| 2 | October 1, 2023 10:30 | October 1, 2023 11:00 | 30m | 22,740 | 5,685 |
| 3 | June 9, 2023 13:45 | June 11, 2023 01:45 | 1d 12h | 20,612 | 23K |
| 4 | November 19, 2023 14:30 | November 20, 2023 06:45 | 16h 15m | 20,547 | 5,682 |
| 5 | February 7, 2023 13:30 | February 8, 2023 06:45 | 17h 15m | 20,492 | 31K |
| 6 | March 14, 2023 15:45 | March 17, 2023 21:15 | 3d 5h | 20,213 | 33K |
| 7 | May 27, 2023 17:00 | May 28, 2023 07:00 | 14h | 18,830 | 9,998 |
| 8 | March 21, 2023 15:30 | March 28, 2023 06:45 | 6d 15h | 16,203 | 58K |
| 9 | May 6, 2023 03:15 | May 7, 2023 03:45 | 1d | 16,180 | 9,637 |
| 10 | August 9, 2023 14:45 | September 17, 2023 19:15 | 39d 4h | 14,728 | 107K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 170 reached 100+ customers, 77 reached 1,000+ customers, 15 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 Sacramento 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sacramento Municipal Util Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
| SMUD | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 625,566 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. Sacramento County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sacramento 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/sacramento-county