With Change Statewide Fire Weather Forecast, Planned PG&E Public Safety Power Shutoff Event Now Includes 88,000 Customers in Portions of Twenty-Nine Counties

Oct 14 2026 17:22 BST

Customer Notifications Sent This Morning to 25,000 Additional Customers Now In Scope; 7,300 Customers Removed from Scope of Event

Oakland, Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) continues to monitor a potential dry offshore wind event forecasted to start Wednesday evening, October 14, lasting through Saturday morning, October 17. This is a statewide fire weather event, and the National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for parts of Kern County, primarily around Lebec, as well as a Fire Weather Watch extending from Bakersfield across the southern plains from San Luis Obispo to Santa Barbara.

PG&E's potential Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) event, forecasted from Wednesday evening through Saturday afternoon, may impact approximately 88,000 customers. As weather conditions continued to evolve, the event scope has been updated, adding approximately 25,000 customers and removing approximately 7,300 customers.

PG&E is encouraging customers who may need additional support to contact 211 now to prepare for a potential power outage and learn about resources that may help minimize hardship. 211 support is available before, during and after an outage, including assistance for customers who rely on power for medical needs, have a disability or have other needs. Call 211, text "PSPS" to 211 or visit 211.org today to get connected with available support

PG&E is planning to open more than 40 Community Resource Centers across 23 counties to provide support during the potential PSPS event. Visit PG&E Outage Center - Ways We Can Help to find the location nearest to you. Each center offers ADA-accessible restrooms, device charging, Wi-Fi, blankets, air conditioning, bottled water, snacks and other supplies.

Potentially Affected Counties
Customers can look up their address online to find out if their location is being monitored for the potential safety shutoff at pge.com/pspsupdates.

88,000 customers across the following 29 counties, including approximately 5,500 Medical Baseline customers, and six Tribal governments may be impacted.

County	Estimated Customers Impacted	Estimated Medical Baseline Impacted
ALAMEDA	4705	213
ALPINE	660	9
AMADOR	4557	401
BUTTE	3097	255
CALAVERAS	10793	554
CONTRA COSTA	1605	92
EL DORADO	8757	722
FRESNO	3010	217
KERN	1117	48
LAKE	3601	344
LASSEN	88	5
MADERA	7273	545
MARIPOSA	1326	61
MENDOCINO	778	54
NAPA	3027	138
NEVADA	2137	82
PLACER	5306	379
PLUMAS	706	30
SAN LUIS OBISPO	8771	353
SANTA BARBARA	1100	26
SHASTA	3019	296
SIERRA	1149	46
SOLANO	30	1
SONOMA	2041	79
TEHAMA	835	60
TULARE	312	10
TUOLUMNE	7248	402
YOLO	8	0
YUBA	419	46

Tribe	Estimated Customers Impacted	Estimated Medical Baseline Impacted
BIG SANDY RANCHERIA	59	2
GUIDIVILLE RANCHERIA	3	0
MOORETOWN RANCHERIA	4	1
NORTH FORK RANCHERIA	25	1
PIT RIVER TRIBES	6	0
TUOLUMNE RANCHERIA	106	6

For more information and resources visit www.pge.com/pspsupdates.

About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is a combined natural gas and electric utility serving more than 16 million people across 70,000 square miles in Northern and Central California. For more information, visit pge.com and pge.com/news.

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With Change Statewide Fire Weather Forecast, Planned PG&E Public Safety Power Shutoff Event Now Includes 88,000 Customers in Portions of Twenty-Nine Counties