Skagit County, Washington Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Skagit County, Washington had 44 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.51 times the US outage time per person and 1.88 times the Washington rate. It ranks 7 of 34 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

110 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Janhardest months

August and January made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 29, 2015, reached 22,502 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 109.8 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	891,250	33	5
2016	454,569	84	3
2017	401,361	102	5
2018	331,960	93	6
2019	133,092	62	1
2020	371,701	103	7
2021	1,343,377	116	11
2022	277,687	104	2
2023	212,853	91	4

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
Aug 29, 2015	109.8	22,502	792,755
Jan 13, 2021	108.2	21,175	635,572
Nov 15, 2021	35.0	7,992	208,881
Mar 10, 2016	40.8	9,479	138,880
Feb 4, 2018	28.5	13,218	110,901

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.