Nearly half of Placer County was without power Saturday morning due to an unplanned outage, according to PG&E.
Several outages were reported to PG&E just after 6:30 a.m., and it is affecting almost 47,000 customers.
Most residents affected by the power outage are in unincorporated Placer County: 36, 882. Auburn has 7,813 customers without power. The other communities impacted by the outages are Colfax, Granite Bay, Lincoln, Loomis, Newcastle, Penn Valley, Penryn, Rocklin and Roseville.
⚠️ 𝐖𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲
A large power outage is currently affecting more than 47,000 customers across Placer County.
The Placer County Sheriff’s Office is receiving reports of numerous traffic signals that are… pic.twitter.com/Us1OhckkSP
— Placer Sheriff (@PlacerSheriff) June 20, 2026
The Placer County Sheriff’s Office said they had recieved reported of traffic signals without power and that some alarm calls are being triggered by the power outages.
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