When will the power be back in Lafayette, CA?
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Lafayette is a city of about 25,371 residents in Contra Costa County.
None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for Lafayette by name, so this page reports the Contra Costa County county-wide view, which covers Lafayette. If a serving utility does name Lafayette during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.
ZIP codes in Lafayette:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Lafayette: the closest other places we track are Orinda, about 3 miles to the west; Walnut Creek, about 4 miles to the east; Pleasant Hill, about 5 miles to the northeast; and Martinez, about 7 miles to the north. Also nearby: Concord (8 mi NE), Danville (10 mi SE), Berkeley (10 mi W), El Cerrito (10 mi W), Oakland (10 mi SW), Benicia (13 mi N), San Leandro (13 mi S) and San Ramon (13 mi SE).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Fairfield (26 mi); northeast toward Rio Vista (30 mi); east toward Antioch (19 mi); southeast toward Dublin (17 mi); south toward Hayward (18 mi); southwest toward South San Francisco (23 mi); west toward Richmond (14 mi); and northwest toward Pinole (14 mi).
Who serves Lafayette?
We track live outage data from Pacific Gas & Electric in Contra Costa County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map.
Lafayette's last tracked outage began Oct 6, peaked at 53 customers out, and was restored in an hour. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 2 hours.
- Oct 6 — 53 customers out, restored in an hour
- Oct 5 — 47 customers out, restored in 3 hours
- Oct 4 — 131 customers out, restored in 23 hours
- Oct 2 — 1,061 customers out, restored in 2 hours
County context: across all of Contra Costa County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 9.3 hr. The full record for Contra Costa County
Common questions
How do I check the power outage status in Lafayette, CA?
To check your own street, search a Lafayette ZIP code — 94549 — and the map opens on that area.
