Kitsap County, Washington Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Kitsap County, Washington had 70 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.77 times the US outage time per person and 2.20 times the Washington rate. It ranks 6 of 34 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

7.8major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

200 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Marhardest months

November and March made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 17, 2015, reached 51,951 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 19.5 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Washington counties

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	2,615,215	73	11
2016	2,082,158	127	6
2017	1,196,092	123	9
2018	1,027,269	114	5
2019	266,727	106	1
2020	964,451	173	11
2021	1,223,820	129	13
2022	1,186,124	137	9
2023	378,995	139	5

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Nov 17, 2015	19.5	51,951	731,484
Nov 24, 2015	26.8	50,214	669,882
Mar 13, 2016	11.0	65,654	575,818
Mar 1, 2016	39.2	44,492	540,355
Feb 18, 2018	48.0	32,536	537,412

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.