When will the power be back in Lassen County, CA?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Lassen County, CA right now.

⚠️ Red Flag Warning in effect for this area — conditions that can cause outages. This page updates about every 15 minutes.

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Elsewhere in California: 10,357 customers reported out — statewide status.

Updated 5:16 PM PDT.

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Who serves Lassen County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Surprise Valley Electric and Pacific Gas & Electric, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Lassen Municipal Utility District and Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.

Outage history — Lassen County, CA

Last significant outage: Sep 23, 2026 — peaked at 915 customers, restored in ~8 hr (weather alert).

Across the 9 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 5.7 hr (median).

Every outage behind these figures (9)

Began	Peak out	Restored in	Weather
Sep 23, 2026	915	~8 hr	weather alert
Sep 12, 2026	454	~5.7 hr	wind/storm
Sep 11, 2026	706	~5.8 hr	wind/storm
Sep 9, 2026	1,380	~20 hr	wind/storm
Sep 7, 2026	369	~8.5 hr	no severe weather
Sep 7, 2026	1,035	~1 hr	no severe weather
Aug 31, 2026	253	~4.7 hr	weather alert
Jul 27, 2026	362	~3.8 hr	no severe weather
Jul 23, 2026	225	~2.3 hr	weather alert

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 23, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Lassen County, CA

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 24 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025. Typical restoration ran ~3.9 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.

That is shorter than the California norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~8.8 hr.

Largest on record: ~767 customers out in November 2025, restored after about 4.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.

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 covered

Communities in Lassen County include Susanville, Bieber, Big Valley, Clear Creek, Doyle, Herlong, Honey Lake and Janesville. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.

This page also serves Susanville: its outages are counted in this county's total.

Common questions

How do I report a power outage in Lassen County, CA?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Lassen include Surprise Valley Electric, Lassen Municipal Utility District, Pacific Gas & Electric and others — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

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Plumas County · Modoc County · Sierra County · Shasta County · Butte County · Tehama County · Nevada County · Yuba County

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