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

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.

SOURCE Pacific Gas and Electric Company