Yakima County, Washington Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Yakima County, Washington had 8 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.31 times the US outage time per person and 0.38 times the Washington rate. It ranks 22 of 34 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

5 of 7years with a major outage

58 hrslongest major outage

May, Aughardest months

May and August made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 31, 2020, reached 13,560 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 57.8 hours.

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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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	121,205	37	1
2018	225,470	76	2
2019	101,138	67	0
2020	430,993	97	2
2021	201,324	78	2
2022	163,936	95	1
2023	120,973	87	0

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
May 31, 2020	57.8	13,560	250,775
Aug 24, 2018	18.5	3,868	58,790
May 9, 2021	9.8	6,179	53,080
Oct 21, 2017	27.0	8,656	39,099
Sep 7, 2020	32.8	2,699	36,664

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.