Mendota News: Fresno County Power Outages October 21 — What the Report Actually Shows

MENDOTA — OCTOBER 22, 2026, REGIONAL UPDATE. Mendota shares Fresno County with the communities featured in Wednesday’s storm outage reports, but the county boundary alone does not prove that Mendota customers lost power.

The primary Sanger News report documents PG&E outage-map information for Wednesday, October 21. One afternoon snapshot identified 14 outage incidents affecting a combined 9,702 customers in the Fresno and near-Selma area, most with a storm-related cause. Separate earlier power interruptions were reported in the Sanger and Clovis areas. These are historical reports; the figures are not a real-time October 22 outage count.

Does this confirm a problem in Mendota?

No. PG&E’s earlier reported incidents were concentrated around the Fresno area and near Selma, and Sanger and Clovis experienced separately reported outages. Not every city in the same county is necessarily included.

What Mendota residents can do

Readers should avoid forwarding a Fresno County headline as a Mendota outage warning unless it identifies the location or utility incident covering their area.

Where PG&E is the electric provider, check its official outage center or report an issue by calling 1-800-743-5002. Never approach fallen wires; leave the area and call 911 when there is an immediate hazard.

Original newsroom and follow-up

For the original Fresno County reporting, affected localities and source attribution, read Sanger News: October 21 Storm Power Outages in Fresno County. Our statewide report at California58.com links the separate local stories together.

Editorial standards: This Mendota item is a neighboring-community regional brief, not a claim that power is or was off at local addresses. California58 does not convert an affected-customer count from one locality into a count for another.

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