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2024 Plumas County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Plumas County, CA went without power for an average of 57.4 hours, a total of 530K customer-hours (California average 6.1 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 57 California counties and 172nd 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 Plumas 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 | July 2, 2024 22:00 | July 3, 2024 07:30 | 9h 30m | 10,426 | 70K |
| 2 | April 26, 2024 07:30 | April 26, 2024 10:45 | 3h 15m | 10,419 | 18K |
| 3 | February 3, 2024 00:00 | February 3, 2024 01:00 | 1h | 10,392 | 3,234 |
| 4 | March 2, 2024 03:45 | March 5, 2024 16:30 | 3d 12h | 6,087 | 196K |
| 5 | June 11, 2024 16:30 | June 11, 2024 23:00 | 6h 30m | 2,978 | 1,974 |
| 6 | October 25, 2024 16:15 | October 25, 2024 19:00 | 2h 45m | 2,862 | 1,236 |
| 7 | October 11, 2024 15:30 | October 11, 2024 17:15 | 1h 45m | 2,606 | 4,561 |
| 8 | August 16, 2024 10:30 | August 19, 2024 16:30 | 3d 6h | 1,976 | 13K |
| 9 | September 3, 2024 21:30 | September 3, 2024 22:30 | 1h | 1,866 | 1,866 |
| 10 | September 13, 2024 11:15 | September 13, 2024 11:45 | 30m | 1,865 | 754 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 79 reached 100+ customers, 27 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 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 |
| Liberty Utilities | 2024 | 12.4 hrs | 2.57 | 8.3 hrs | 2.37 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/plumas-county