Power Out Map
– 0% of Yuba out 0 customers out in California

Power outage history

Yuba County California

16hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

21st most of 56 in California 2.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 5, 2024 68% of customers out · 90% back in 31 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 16h / yr State average 6.2 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 11hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.0days Feb 26, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 75% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2019 29 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 35,933 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Yuba's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 29 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Yuba, hours without power per customer

YubaUS median countyCalifornia average
0 10 20 30 40 ’17 1.9 ’18 29 ’19 29 ’20 15 ’21 9.3 ’22 18 ’23 18 ’24 6.2 ’25 US 6.6 CA 6.2

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Feb 4, 2024 Windstorm 24,376 68% 3.8 d 31 h 474k
Sep 7, 2020 Windstorm 9,592 27% 4.6 d 21 h 383k
Oct 26, 2019 Wildfire 8,472 24% 4.0 d 1.8 h 333k
Jan 26, 2021 Winter storm 11,719 33% 2.6 d 37 h 205k
Oct 25, 2020 Windstorm 11,537 32% 2.1 d 45 h 187k
Feb 26, 2023 Winter storm 2,094 6% 5.0 d 47 h 155k
Oct 14, 2020 No storm report 11,056 31% 43 h 16 h 143k
Oct 10, 2019 Wildfire 5,820 16% 31 h 30 h 117k
Jan 8, 2023 Winter storm 9,030 25% 19 h 15 h 115k
Oct 23, 2019 Wildfire 6,881 19% 29 h 11 h 111k
Sep 23, 2019 No storm report 11,309 31% 23 h 21 h 96k
Dec 25, 2025 Windstorm 8,360 23% 31 h 14 h 95k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +8h 90% by +30h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Yuba from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Windstorm 34%
  • No storm on record 25%
  • Winter storm 21%
  • Wildfire 19%
  • Heat 2.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Yuba

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole California territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Investor Owned 273 208 1.63 37.5 5.1M
WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration Federal – – – – –

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across California

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All California counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 35,933 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →