FAQ Category: Wildfire

Visit CAL FIRE Ready for Wildfire for more information on how to prepare your home and property for the threat of wildfire. For statewide wildfire recovery resources, visit California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.

At TID, we prepare all year to make sure you have safe and reliable electric service at your home or business. We want to offer you tools to prepare your home and family in case of an emergency. Click here for ways to prepare your home/business for an extended power outage.

We know how important reliable electric service is to our customers, especially those using medical equipment or who require refrigerated medications. We make every effort to prevent outages but cannot guarantee that they will not occur. In case of emergency, please be prepared and find a location that will have emergency backup power and have…

Each situation is unique. In areas of greater risk, including the La Grange and Diablo Grande areas, outage times may be longer depending on the severity and urgency of the situation.  In the case of a PSPS, the utility, whether TID or PG&E will have to confirm the decrease in risk factors for the area,…

When possible, PG&E will provide PSPS notices 48 hours in advance, 24 hours in advance, just before the power is turned off, during the PSPS, and once power is restored. Whenever possible, TID will provide potentially impacted customers with notice, following a similar schedule, before shutting power off, using all available channels to reach customers…

This situation is highly unlikely. Turning off the power is a last resort to maintain public and customer safety during extreme fire risk conditions.  If no significant risk factors are present it I unlikely that a PSPS would be warranted.

Fortunately, the large majority of the TID service area is not at risk of wildfire, nor does it present the combination of criteria that may necessitate the use of PSPS. Even the District operations in the eastern- and western-most points of our service territory that are in High Fire Threat areas, are not anticipated to…

Turning off the power is a last resort to maintain public and customer safety during extreme fire risk conditions.  The factors that determine if a utility will implement a Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) depends on the circumstances of each situation. A utility will consider a combination of many factors when making a decision to…

Fortunately, the large majority of the TID service area is not at risk of wildfire.  The District’s biggest risk of wildfire lies near our operations in the eastern- and western-most points of our service area. The western most end of the District, west of Interstate 5 includes the community of Diablo Grande as well as…

TID is taking proactive and precautionary measures to help reduce wildfire risks and help keep our customers and the communities we serve safe. While TID always practices sound, annual fire mitigation efforts, vegetation management crews have been especially busy in 2019 inspecting, maintaining and clearing large areas of vegetation under and near power lines in…