County annual report · FIPS 06023
2024 Humboldt County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Humboldt County, CA went without power for an average of 22.2 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (California average 6.1 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 57 California counties and 453rd 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 Humboldt 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 | December 5, 2024 16:15 | December 6, 2024 08:00 | 15h 45m | 10,657 | 36K |
| 2 | November 19, 2024 15:30 | November 26, 2024 01:30 | 6d 10h | 9,903 | 268K |
| 3 | March 1, 2024 20:15 | March 8, 2024 04:15 | 6d 8h | 8,607 | 126K |
| 4 | November 12, 2024 15:30 | November 15, 2024 11:00 | 2d 19h | 4,593 | 75K |
| 5 | December 13, 2024 08:45 | December 17, 2024 22:45 | 4d 14h | 4,384 | 37K |
| 6 | April 30, 2024 14:30 | May 1, 2024 05:15 | 14h 45m | 4,073 | 1,567 |
| 7 | June 17, 2024 16:15 | June 18, 2024 04:30 | 12h 15m | 3,981 | 10K |
| 8 | May 29, 2024 13:45 | May 30, 2024 11:30 | 21h 45m | 3,895 | 11K |
| 9 | July 20, 2024 15:15 | July 23, 2024 12:00 | 2d 20h | 3,276 | 13K |
| 10 | June 7, 2024 09:30 | June 8, 2024 03:45 | 18h 15m | 3,178 | 23K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 203 reached 100+ customers, 44 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 Humboldt 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 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/humboldt-county