PG&E is warning customers in 13 California counties, including some in the Bay Area, that power shutoffs are likely Thursday because of dry and windy conditions that could spark wildfires.

The planned Public Safety Power Shutoffs could take place in parts of Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Merced, Monterey, San Benito, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Santa Clara, Shasta, Stanislaus, Tehama and Trinity counties starting Thursday morning and some outages could last into Saturday and Sunday, PG&E officials said on the utility company’s website.

People can go to pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/psps-updates to see if their address will be affected and to find out more information about the planned outages.

According to the National Weather Service, temperatures around the inland Bay Area neared triple digits Wednesday. While slightly cooler weather is expected the rest of the week, there is an increased risk for fast-spreading vegetation fires in the East Bay hills, eastern Santa Clara hills and the Gabilan Range of Monterey and San Benito counties because of wind gusts of up to 50 mph and low humidity levels.

Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.