(KRON) -- Thousands of Bay Area customers could face public safety power shutoffs due to elevated fire danger this week. Pacific Gas and Electric announced Tuesday it has sent out notifications to about 70,000 customers statewide warning of a potential PSPS event. Across the state, some 29 counties are facing potential shutoffs due to high winds and dry conditions forecast through Saturday evening. There are five Bay Area counties that PGE says could be impacted. 3 injured in Archer Aviation thermal runaway incident They are Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, Solano and Sonoma. The total number of customers that could be impacted across the Bay Area comes in at just over 11,000. CountyEstimated Customers ImpactedEstimated Medical Baseline ImpactedAlameda4705213Contra Costa160592Napa3027138Solano301Sonoma178369 "Offshore Diablo winds will peak Thursday across the northern and central Sierra, as well as into portions of the North and East Bay," said PGE in an announcement. "Even though this is a large event, new modeling tools have been implemented to allow for higher resolution weather data which allows us to be more surgical when scoping," the announcement continued. "For example, Machine Learning wind gust models at the weather station level help fill in the gaps of coarser resolution traditional weather models." As of Tuesday afternoon, PGE said implementation of the planned outages was about 12 hours away and that conditions were subject to change. After a multi-day stretch of fall weather, temperatures are expected to gradually warm across the Bay Area beginning Tuesday and peaking on Thursday and Friday, according to the National Weather Service. PGE typically initiates PSPS events when the weather forecast calls for low humidity levels, generally 30% and below, and a forecast of high winds. ...read more read less