When will the power be back in Palo Alto, CA?

Palo Alto is a city of about 67,658 residents in Santa Clara County.

Pacific Gas & Electric has reported outages for Palo Alto by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-07-29) — so when Palo Alto is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.

ZIP codes in Palo Alto:

• 94301
• 94302
• 94304
• 94306
• 94309

Palo Alto also extends into a neighboring county: 94303. Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Palo Alto: the closest other places we track are Los Altos, about 3 miles to the southeast; Mountain View, about 3 miles to the east; East Palo Alto, about 5 miles to the north; and Menlo Park, about 6 miles to the north. Also nearby: Sunnyvale (6 mi E), Cupertino (8 mi SE), Redwood City (9 mi NW), Santa Clara (10 mi E), San Carlos (10 mi NW), Newark (11 mi NE), Saratoga (11 mi SE) and Belmont (12 mi NW).

Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Foster City (14 mi); northeast toward Fremont (12 mi); east toward Milpitas (14 mi); southeast toward Campbell (13 mi); south toward Scotts Valley (25 mi); west toward Half Moon Bay (17 mi); and northwest toward San Mateo (15 mi).

Palo Alto's last tracked outage began Sep 18, peaked at 33 customers out, and was restored in 5 hours.

• Sep 18 — 33 customers out, restored in 5 hours