When will the power be back in Foster City, CA?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Foster City is a city of about 32,657 residents in San Mateo County.
Pacific Gas & Electric has reported outages for Foster City by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-07-27) — so when Foster City is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.
Around Foster City: the closest other places we track are San Mateo, about 4 miles to the west; Redwood City, about 5 miles to the south; Belmont, about 5 miles to the southwest; and San Carlos, about 6 miles to the south. Also nearby: Hillsborough (7 mi W), Burlingame (7 mi W), Hayward (8 mi NE), Menlo Park (8 mi SE), Millbrae (9 mi W), East Palo Alto (10 mi SE), San Leandro (10 mi NE) and South San Francisco (11 mi NW).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Alameda (12 mi); northeast toward San Ramon (21 mi); east toward Newark (12 mi); southeast toward Mountain View (15 mi); south toward Palo Alto (14 mi); southwest toward Half Moon Bay (13 mi); west toward San Bruno (11 mi); and northwest toward Daly City (15 mi).
Who serves Foster City?
We track live outage data from Pacific Gas & Electric in San Mateo County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. City & County of San Francisco also serves parts of San Mateo County — we don't yet read its own live outage map.
Foster City's last tracked outage began Oct 2, peaked at 1,684 customers out, and was restored in 5 hours. Across the 3 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 8 hours.
- Oct 2 — 1,684 customers out, restored in 5 hours
- Sep 15 — 56 customers out, restored in 8 hours
- Aug 30 — 501 customers out, restored in 11 hours
County context: across all of San Mateo County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 11 hr. The full record for San Mateo County
Common questions
When will my power be back on in Foster City, CA?
It depends on the cause and how many crews are working; the live status at the top of this page shows the current outlook. For context from Foster City's own record: across the 3 outages this site has tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 8 hours — the outage-history panel above lists them.
Does this page show Foster City specifically, or the whole county?
Both, and for Foster City we have the city-level view: Pacific Gas & Electric has published outages for Foster City under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-07-27. When Foster City is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the San Mateo County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes Foster City.
