SEBASTOPOL — OCTOBER 22, 2026 | BAY AREA REGIONAL REPORT. Sebastopol readers may see a report that 2,775 customers in San Francisco were affected by a Wednesday night outage. It is a confirmed central-city incident, not a customer count for Sonoma County.
On Wednesday evening, October 21, an underground electrical vault fire near Van Ness Avenue and Bush Street in San Francisco was associated with a PG&E power outage affecting approximately 2,775 customers around the city’s Tenderloin and Civic Center neighborhoods. According to contemporaneous utility information cited by San Francisco News, the original California58 local newsroom for this event, the affected city power supply was largely restored later the same evening.
This is not an announcement of a widespread or continuing Bay Area blackout on October 22.
Is there a related outage in Sebastopol?
No Sebastopol-specific outage has been verified as part of the San Francisco incident. Public utility numbers are attached to particular incidents and sometimes include restoration updates within hours. Most customers in the San Francisco event were reported restored Wednesday night.
Practical information for readers
For any separate Sebastopol power interruption, determine the local utility incident and date before drawing a connection to San Francisco.
For current power problems at an address served by PG&E, consult its official outage center. Call 1-800-743-5002 to report loss of service. For hazards involving fallen wires, stay away and contact 911.
Original newsroom reporting
Follow the San Francisco News account of the October 21 vault fire and power outage for documented facts, restoration developments and relevant transport impacts in the affected city area. California58’s neighboring-community updates link to that original instead of misrepresenting the same event as simultaneous local blackouts.
Editorial note: This is a dated regional news brief for Sebastopol; it does not claim an electrical outage occurred here. The 2,775 figure belongs to the San Francisco incident and is not a current or statewide outage total.
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