One customer could represent a household of six or more people. And the largest numbers of these are not in the greater Bay Area, but east and north of Sacramento in Butte, El Dorado, and Yuba Counties.ДЄnd remember, PG&E doesnвЂ™t count by people affected, they count by customers affected. As seen in the PG&E current outage map above (and hey, at least itвЂ™s not crashing like it did last year), most of the outages are Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) intended to mitigate fire risk. So the real number is currently closer to 100,000 households without power across northern California. The ChronicleвЂ™s headline that 37,000 households in Sonoma and Napa Counties are currently without power only tells part of the story, as further in the article we see that вЂњSeparately, the utility had also planned 65,000 shut-offs Sunday and Monday as a measure to prevent lines from sparking fires across its huge service territory.вЂќ Image: PGE.com The PG&E power outages are dotting nearly every northern California county as of Monday afternoon, as you can see in the graphic below, though some areas are hit terribly hard. Wildfire distress and anxiety rapidly returned to our lives in a big way this weekend, as the Napa County Glass Fire merged with the Shady Fire and Boyson Fire, forcing mass evacuations and and plenty of wine country households to lose their power Sunday night. ItвЂ™s that time of year, as the Napa and Sonoma fires have knocked out some 37,000 homesвЂ™ power, planned outages hit another 65,000 homes in the Sierras, and even Oakland and SF have a few areas without power.

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