Mid-February Winter Storm Cuts Power to 2,065 in Notchko, Orleans

A pre-dawn winter storm on Feb. 18 left roughly 2,065 PG&E customers in the Notchko and Orleans area without electricity, according to Lost Coast Outpost’s outage tracker and PG&E restoration updates. The outage was recorded as beginning in the early morning hours during the mid-February storm period that moved through Humboldt County.

Lost Coast Outpost’s outage tracker logged the size and location of the disruption, marking the Notchko/Orleans event as a notable outage for the region. PG&E’s restoration updates reflected the same incident, providing the utility-side status that corresponded with the tracker entries used by residents and local observers.

The affected population was listed as approximately 2,065 customers in outage maps and status posts for the Notchko and Orleans area. Those outage counts represent the number utilities use to track service interruptions, and the figures appeared in both the LoCO tracker and PG&E’s public restoration information during the storm period on Feb. 18.

Local residents and businesses relying on the LoCO outage tracker and PG&E restoration updates turned to those tools to monitor whether their service was included in the measured 2,065-customer interruption. The dual reporting by the independent tracker and PG&E provided parallel snapshots of the outage footprint as crews and officials monitored winter-storm impacts across Humboldt County.

The mid-February storm that produced the outage arrived in the early morning hours of Feb. 18, and the event was still the principal outage listed for the Notchko/Orleans area as of the next calendar day. Reporting and tracking from Lost Coast Outpost and PG&E captured that the Notchko/Orleans outage was a significant localized disruption in the county’s winter-storm period.