Various counties have been affected by this power outage. Now, thousands are left with no power during an excessively hot day.

These power outages occurred in various towns and counties near Lake Tahoe. However, it appears that Placer County was hit the hardest, as this county had at least 10,000 outages.

However, Plumas County also has more than 1,800 outages, while Nevada County has about 1,364. Trinity and Sierra counties also had some outages around 800 each.

According to Liberty Utilities, NV Energy ended up cutting transmission lines because of a raging fire in Verdi. Earlier this morning, the company wasn’t sure when restoration would be possible.

The post on X said, “We are aware of the power outage affecting the entire north side of our service territory. NV Energy has cut power to the transmission line servicing this area due to a fire in Verdi. There is no restoration time currently available. We will update when information is available.”

However, the company also stated that power had been restored to all of their customers. It’s unclear if other utility companies have also seen these restorations.

One of these fires was in Truckee, while the other was in Verdi. The fire in Verdi caused NV Energy to cut transmission lines, which caused power outages in various towns and counties.

Firefighters believe this fire was started by a vehicle fire. More than one car fire has started a wildfire in California this year alone.

As fires have raged throughout the state, many Californians have suffered in a variety of ways. To keep fires from occurring during windy days, electric companies have often shut off power for many — even during heat waves.

The statement said, “As of July 30, 2024, wildfires have scorched a staggering 751,327 acres across our state.”

The Park Fire is now the fourth largest fire ever seen in California history — and it’s only been burning for a few weeks.

Other regions of California also saw power outages on Monday. In total, more than 28,000 people were without power, with Contra Costa County also seeing 5,747 outages, and a reported 3,621 seen in Santa Clara.

“The significant reduction of the use of fire by Indigenous peoples following colonisation, the introduction of grazing livestock (which reduced fine fuels and decreased surface fire activity), aggressive fire suppression in the 20th century, and early timber harvest practices (which removed large trees and increased surface fuels) resulted in stand densification by fire-intolerant species and increased fuel loading in some California forests, leading to increasingly severe fires in these ecosystems,” said a 2023 research paper examining the topic.

It also determined that human sources are responsible for 90% of ignitions, spurred on by human development in areas that are more prone to fire risks.

A study published last year in the journal Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences found that human-caused climate change has exacerbated summer forest fires in California.

The study also predicted a further increase in forest areas burned in the coming decades ranging from 3% to 52%.

From 2020-2022 California set a record for the three driest years the state had ever recorded.

“While an increase in temperatures and dryness has been identified to be one of the major drivers of increased summer forest burned area (BA), the extent to which such changes are due to natural variability or anthropogenic climate change remains unresolved,” the study said.

In June, the Climate Prediction Center announced an end to El Niño, with parts of California returning to drought levels for the first time all year by July. The month of July marked the end of a nine-month drought-free period for these parts of California.

However, by July, 19% of the state moved to dry conditions.

In early July, this intense heat broke records across major cities in California, some recording temperatures above 120 degrees Fahrenheit.

“This is a record-breaking heat wave,” said Swain at a news conference. People in the state saw “not only the hottest day they’ve ever experienced but also the hottest day that their parents or grandparents ever would have experienced.”

All the extra moisture delivered by the recent rainfalls gets evaporated, creating the perfect conditions for a fire to start.

“Fatigue is definitely affecting people. We’ve seen it over the last few years with the really active fire seasons, and we are not done with this one. Firefighters signed up, they know what they’re getting into, they are all ready to go and they are ready for a few more months of this,” said David Lauchner of Cal Fire to ABC10.