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2024 Butte County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Butte County, CA went without power for an average of 19.0 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (California average 6.1 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 57 California counties and 529th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butte County, 2024
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 5, 2024 00:15 | February 11, 2024 10:30 | 6d 10h | 43,533 | 808K |
| 2 | August 29, 2024 14:45 | August 31, 2024 17:15 | 2d 2h | 6,411 | 9,067 |
| 3 | November 20, 2024 13:30 | November 22, 2024 08:45 | 1d 19h | 6,312 | 26K |
| 4 | December 14, 2024 07:15 | December 16, 2024 05:30 | 1d 22h | 5,291 | 37K |
| 5 | July 2, 2024 05:15 | July 8, 2024 21:15 | 6d 16h | 5,193 | 102K |
| 6 | May 24, 2024 15:45 | May 26, 2024 07:30 | 1d 15h | 3,903 | 3,883 |
| 7 | October 28, 2024 08:45 | November 1, 2024 08:15 | 3d 23h | 3,651 | 29K |
| 8 | July 28, 2024 05:30 | August 14, 2024 12:30 | 17d 7h | 3,324 | 198K |
| 9 | July 23, 2024 12:45 | July 28, 2024 04:00 | 4d 15h | 3,194 | 131K |
| 10 | June 4, 2024 14:30 | June 6, 2024 04:30 | 1d 14h | 3,181 | 15K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 153 reached 100+ customers, 49 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 Butte County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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. | 2024 | 8.5 hrs | 2.15 | 4.6 hrs | 1.82 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Biggs - (CA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gridley - (CA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 90,543 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. Butte County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butte County, CA annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/california/butte-county