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Who serves Modoc County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Surprise Valley Electric and PacifiCorp, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Modoc County, CA
Last significant outage: Sep 18, 2026 — peaked at 211 customers, restored in ~2.6 days (no severe weather).
Across the 5 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 6.3 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 13, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Modoc County, CA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
76 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.5 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: ~2,714 customers out in June 2021, restored after about 2.8 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 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Modoc County include Alturas, Adin, Adin-Lookout, California Pines, Canby, Cedarville, Daphnedale Park and Eagleville. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Modoc County, CA?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Modoc include Surprise Valley Electric and PacifiCorp — 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.
