Outage Almanac

Washington power outages

36 counties with outage records. Pick one to see its history.

Washington averaged 0.80 times the US outage time per person

That ranks 26 of 50 states and DC, where 1 has the most. November and January made up 47% of outage time. Records run from 2015 to 2023, and some counties start later.

San Juan County had the most outage time per resident of 34 rated counties.

Counties ranked by outage time

RankCountyMajor outages per yearLongest (hours)Times US rate
1San Juan County1.5464.45
2Island County5.01603.97
3Ferry County2.3823.30
4Jefferson County4.0962.98
5Stevens County5.6822.14
6Kitsap County7.82001.77
7Skagit County4.91101.51
8Lincoln County1.1791.39
9Clallam County2.8661.35
10Spokane County1.81321.27
11Whatcom County4.41141.24
12Mason County2.2241.19
13Pend Oreille County1.6561.16
14Lewis County3.8501.10
15Snohomish County3.21231.01
16Thurston County4.4880.88
17Kittitas County2.4420.87
18King County3.71740.72
19Whitman County1.2720.55
20Pierce County2.21150.48
21Walla Walla County0.7190.40
22Yakima County1.1580.31
23Douglas County0.6720.30
24Asotin County0.3110.25
25Clark County1.4460.20
26Adams County0.3260.19
27Benton County0.6240.14
28Okanogan County0.2680.13
29Chelan County0.2220.07
30Franklin County0.2260.03
30Grant County0.2260.03
30Klickitat County0.0None0.03
33Cowlitz County0.0None0.02
33Skamania County0.0None0.02

Rank uses outage time per resident. Times US rate compares each county with the national average.

When outages hit Washington

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These counties have short histories, very small populations, or customer counts that look too high for the population.