SF power outage impacts thousands amid heat wave
Mar 20, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A widespread power outage in San Francisco Friday left thousands of customers without power. PGE's outage map indicates the outage was impacting customers in the Inner Sunset, Upper-Market and Castro districts.
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According to PGE, there are around 6,383 impacted customers as of 2:59 p.m. A crew is working to restore power with an estimated time of restoration for 8:15 p.m.
"PGE has established that an electrical equipment failure in an underground vault at 18th and Guerrero was a cause of outages impacting San Francisco customers this afternoon," PGE said in an update to KRON4.
As of 5 p.m., approximately 3,100 customers remain without power, according to PGE.
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PGE said the outage, which comes on the last day of an unprecedented, five-day March heat wave, was unplanned.
"A large, unplanned power outage is impacting multiple neighborhoods and moving throughout the city," the San Francisco Department of Emergency Services said in a tweet.
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