7-Day Public Safety Power Shutoff Forecast
12/27: No Public Safety Power Shutoff
12/28: No Public Safety Power Shutoff
12/29: No Public Safety Power Shutoff
12/30: No Public Safety Power Shutoff
12/31: No Public Safety Power Shutoff
1/1: No Public Safety Power Shutoff
1/2: No Public Safety Power Shutoff
PG&E Weather Team Comments
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The information in this map is intended only to provide customers with a general estimate regarding potential locations that may be impacted by a PSPS event should one become necessary. Conditions affecting a possible PSPS event can change quickly and the actual impact of a future PSPS event is uncertain.
Thursday, December 26, 2024
NOTE: This forecast is based on weather conditions and fuel moisture content only. It does not include other criteria used to determine whether a PSPS may be necessary. This forecast only provides a broad overview for a potential PSPS event in the next 7 days. It is determined from an analysis of forecast weather, the potential for wind-related damage, and fuel moisture content in dead and live vegetation. It is not a fire danger forecast. The forecast is broken down by county. PSPS decisions are made at more granular levels. Only a portion of a county may experience a PSPS event. While a PSPS event may not be expected for an area, due to the interconnectivity of the grid any location within PG&E territory may be subject to PSPS event.
No Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) events are planned for the next week. A series of weather systems are expected to move through the territory today through the weekend bringing rain, high elevation mountain snow, and breezy to gusty winds across the territory. A weather system moving through the territory this morning will continue to produce periods of rain and mountain snowfall in the North with rain tapering off this morning or early afternoon in the central portions of the territory outside of the Sierra. Later this evening into tomorrow another weather system moving through the territory will result in another round of rain and breezy to gusty winds across the territory aside from the far southern interior. Over the weekend, another weather system will bring rain, high elevation mountain snow, and breezy to gusty winds across mainly northern and central portions of the territory with potential for isolated thunderstorms across the North on Sunday. Fair and dry weather is expected to return through much of next week.
Fuels: Dead fuel moisture values will continue to increase as winter precipitation is expected across most of the territory. However, live fuel moisture values remain near seasonal minimums and are entering winter dormancy. Lastly, new growth of the annual grass crop is occurring for many areas in the central and northern part of the territory. The latest 4 Month Seasonal Outlook from Northern Operations Predictive Services is forecasting normal fire activity across the entire territory December through March while Southern Operations Predictive Services is forecasting normal to above normal fire activity in December followed by normal fire activity January through March.
There are 3 of 788 circuits in High Fire Risk Areas (HFRA) that are EPSS-enabled today. The remaining 785 circuits in HFRA will have devices postured in normal settings due to low FPI ratings. Additionally, 0 EPSS Buffer-only circuits are enabled today.
PLEASE NOTE: This forecast is published daily by an operational meteorologist from PG&E's Meteorology and Analytics team. This forecast has been customized for PG&E utility operations. It should not be used for any other purpose or by any other entity.