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

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

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Elsewhere in California: 2,557 customers reported out — statewide status.

Updated 11:30 PM PDT.

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Who serves Plumas County?

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

Outage history — Plumas County, CA

⚡ Power here was restored about 14 hours ago — the outage peaked at 387 customers.

Last significant outage: Oct 16, 2026 — peaked at 387 customers, restored in ~2 hr (weather alert).

Across the 9 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.3 hr (median).

Every outage behind these figures (9)

Began	Peak out	Restored in	Weather
Oct 16, 2026	387	~2 hr	weather alert
Oct 15, 2026	387	~2.5 hr	weather alert
Oct 14, 2026	320	~4 hr	weather alert
Sep 30, 2026	705	~8 hr	no severe weather
Sep 23, 2026	378	~10.3 hr	no severe weather
Sep 5, 2026	326	~1.2 hr	no severe weather
Aug 23, 2026	734	~2 hr	no severe weather
Aug 3, 2026	209	~2.3 hr	heat event
Jul 29, 2026	1,768	~1.3 hr	no severe weather

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 29, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Plumas County, CA

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 356 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025. Typical restoration ran ~4 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: ~11,918 customers out in October 2019, restored after about 3.9 days. 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 covered

Communities in Plumas County include Portola, Almanor, Beckwourth, Belden, Blairsden, Bucks Lake, C-Road and Canyondam. 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 Plumas County, CA?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Plumas include Pacific Gas & Electric and Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative — 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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