When will the power be back in Humboldt County, CA?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · California
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customers reported out in Humboldt County, CA
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
Earliest posted restoration time (Pacific Gas & Electric): Oct 8, 5:00 AM PDT· 2 different times posted; the latest Oct 8, 6:00 AM PDT
County-wide restoration outlook: no clear recovery trend yet — past outages here of 200+ customers in the same kind of weather ran ~8 hr start to finish (15 on record)
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
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Updated 11:44 PM PDT.
2649county-wide trend of customers without power · last 15 hr · tap or hover a point to see its number
Communities with reported outages — from the utilities that publish city-by-city detail for this county
Eureka — 48 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 8, 5:00 AM PDT · earliest of the 2 times posted here; the latest is Oct 8, 6:00 AM PDT
Arcata — 1 customer reported out · utility est. Oct 8, 5:00 AM PDT
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An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Pacific Gas & Electric, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. This is the utility we track here, not necessarily the only one serving it — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Humboldt County, CA
Last significant outage: Oct 7, 2026 — peaked at 2,244 customers, restored in ~7 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 22 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 7.4 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 22, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Recent outages tracked in Arcata
Arcata's last tracked outage began Oct 6, peaked at 164 customers out, and was restored in 2 hours. Across the 4 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 3 hours.
Oct 6 — 164 customers out, restored in 2 hours
Oct 6 — 166 customers out, restored in 2 hours
Sep 28 — 64 customers out, restored in 4 hours
Sep 25 — 54 customers out, restored in 5 hours
Tracked by this site from the serving utilities' own live outage maps (outages of 25+ customers; dates are local calendar days). These recent, city-level outages build on the longer-term federal record below.
Longer-term outage history — Humboldt County, CA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,006 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 11 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~7.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~71,791 customers out in December 2022, restored after about 34.8 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2024.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025, replayed through the same event rules as our tracking archive above with two differences: outages shorter than
half an hour count here, and a reading above twice the county's customers or households is capped. They cover a far longer period
than we have been tracking — a different set of outages, so the two typical times differ. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities in Humboldt County include Eureka, Arcata, Fortuna, Rio Dell, Ferndale, Blue Lake, Trinidad and Alderpoint. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
This page also serves Arcata and Fortuna: their outages are counted in this county's total, and the outages tracked in Arcata are listed with the outage history above.
