Power Out Map
– 0% of Kitsap out 0 customers out in Washington

Power outage history

Kitsap County Washington

9.4hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

9th most of 31 in Washington 1.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 25, 2025 52% of customers out · 90% back in 40 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 9.4h / yr State average 5.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 14hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.7days Feb 5, 2017, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 0% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 19 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 126,242 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Kitsap's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 19 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Kitsap, hours without power per customer

KitsapUS median countyWashington average
0 5 10 15 20 25 21 ’15 17 ’16 10 ’17 8.8 ’18 2.8 ’19 8.5 ’20 11 ’21 10 ’22 3.8 ’23 12 ’24 19 ’25 US 6.6 WA 5.3

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Feb 24, 2025 No storm report 65,573 52% 2.7 d 40 h 1.7M
Nov 17, 2015 No storm report 51,951 41% 2.3 d 34 h 1.0M
Mar 13, 2016 No storm report 65,654 52% 42 h 24 h 813k
Nov 24, 2015 No storm report 50,214 40% 41 h 27 h 723k
Feb 5, 2017 No storm report 33,278 26% 2.7 d 35 h 569k
Mar 1, 2016 No storm report 44,492 35% 32 h 23 h 536k
Feb 18, 2018 No storm report 32,536 26% 39 h 26 h 532k
Aug 29, 2015 No storm report 20,879 17% 2.6 d 46 h 461k
Nov 19, 2024 No storm report 24,866 20% 44 h 37 h 391k
Jan 12, 2021 No storm report 27,910 22% 36 h 22 h 375k
Oct 14, 2016 No storm report 13,257 11% 2.3 d 25 h 239k
Nov 13, 2017 No storm report 15,022 12% 33 h 17 h 213k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

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When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Kitsap from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 100%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Kitsap

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Washington territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Puget Sound Energy Inc Investor Owned 580 178 1.60 17.0 1.1M
Peninsula Light Company Cooperative 745 98 4.24 11.3 36k
PUD No 3 of Mason County Political Subdivision 419 223 1.91 14.4 34k
Bonneville Power Administration Federal – – – – –

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Washington

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Washington counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 126,242 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →