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2025 Plumas County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Plumas County, CA went without power for an average of 38.0 hours, a total of 350K customer-hours (California average 7.6 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 57 California counties and 129th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Plumas County, 2025
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 25, 2025 06:45 | December 29, 2025 00:45 | 3d 18h | 11,108 | 62K |
| 2 | August 26, 2025 05:30 | August 27, 2025 01:00 | 19h 30m | 10,143 | 91K |
| 3 | March 13, 2025 07:45 | March 13, 2025 22:00 | 14h 15m | 4,080 | 11K |
| 4 | March 6, 2025 04:15 | March 6, 2025 07:15 | 3h | 3,410 | 7,419 |
| 5 | August 24, 2025 21:15 | August 25, 2025 07:00 | 9h 45m | 3,338 | 12K |
| 6 | November 5, 2025 14:15 | November 6, 2025 04:00 | 13h 45m | 2,523 | 1,855 |
| 7 | June 10, 2025 21:00 | June 10, 2025 22:15 | 1h 15m | 2,210 | 2,482 |
| 8 | July 22, 2025 21:15 | July 22, 2025 23:30 | 2h 15m | 2,151 | 4,634 |
| 9 | May 15, 2025 03:45 | May 15, 2025 12:45 | 9h | 1,978 | 11K |
| 10 | October 25, 2025 18:30 | October 25, 2025 22:00 | 3h 30m | 1,958 | 6,853 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 57 reached 100+ customers, 19 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/california/plumas-county