When will the power be back in Walnut Creek, CA?
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Walnut Creek is a city of about 70,817 residents in Contra Costa County.
None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for Walnut Creek by name, so this page reports the Contra Costa County county-wide view, which covers Walnut Creek. If a serving utility does name Walnut Creek during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.
ZIP codes in Walnut Creek:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Walnut Creek: the closest other places we track are Pleasant Hill, about 4 miles to the northwest; Lafayette, about 4 miles to the west; Concord, about 5 miles to the northeast; and Danville, about 7 miles to the southeast. Also nearby: Orinda (8 mi W), Martinez (8 mi NW), San Ramon (11 mi SE), Benicia (13 mi NW), Oakland (14 mi SW), Antioch (14 mi E), Berkeley (14 mi W) and El Cerrito (14 mi W).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Fairfield (25 mi); northeast toward Rio Vista (26 mi); east toward Oakley (20 mi); southeast toward Dublin (15 mi); south toward Hayward (19 mi); southwest toward San Leandro (15 mi); west toward Richmond (18 mi); and northwest toward Pinole (17 mi).
Who serves Walnut Creek?
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.
Walnut Creek's last tracked outage began Oct 17, peaked at 40 customers out, and was restored in an hour. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 3 hours.
- Oct 17 — 40 customers out, restored in an hour
- Oct 10 — 508 customers out, restored in 2 hours
- Oct 9 — 61 customers out, restored in 4 hours
- Oct 8 — 79 customers out, restored in 3 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 Walnut Creek, CA?
To check your own street, search a Walnut Creek ZIP code — 94595, 94596, 94597 or 94598 — and the map opens on that area.
