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

Power outage history

Lincoln County Washington

9.9hours

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

7th most of 31 in Washington 1.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Sep 7, 2020 33% of customers out · 90% back in 2.8 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 9.9h / yr State average 5.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.7 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.3days Sep 7, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 52% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 23 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,307 ORNL customer model · 7 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 Lincoln's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 23 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Lincoln, hours without power per customer

LincolnUS median countyWashington average
0 10 20 30 15 ’15 4.8 ’16 3.0 ’17 4.0 ’19 23 ’20 5.7 ’21 16 ’22 9.6 ’23 4.1 ’24 7.2 ’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
Sep 7, 2020 Windstorm 2,059 33% 5.3 d 2.8 d 90k
Nov 17, 2015 Windstorm 1,844 29% 48 h 29 h 25k
Dec 9, 2022 Winter storm 1,060 17% 2.1 d 25 h 21k
Dec 25, 2022 No storm report 2,632 42% 12 h 7.5 h 20k
Dec 5, 2023 No storm report 1,594 25% 11 h 7.5 h 17k
Nov 13, 2020 Winter storm 589 9% 30 h 16 h 12k
Jan 2, 2022 No storm report 1,970 31% 10 h 9.2 h 11k
Aug 8, 2015 No storm report 1,332 21% 7.2 h 13 h 9.7k
Dec 17, 2025 Windstorm 963 15% 32 h 27 h 9.4k
Sep 30, 2015 No storm report 2,227 35% 3.5 h 3.5 h 7.8k
Oct 23, 2016 No storm report 1,148 18% 6.8 h 6.8 h 7.7k
Mar 3, 2022 No storm report 1,195 19% 6.8 h 7.5 h 7.2k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +8h 90% by +10h

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 Lincoln from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 48%
  • Windstorm 31%
  • Winter storm 14%
  • Wildfire 6.7%
  • Thunderstorms 0.6%
  • Tornadoes 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Lincoln

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
Avista Corp Investor Owned 200 119 0.97 14.2 247k
PUD No 2 of Grant County Political Subdivision 84 – 0.42 6.2 43k
Inland Power & Light Company Cooperative 536 283 2.55 9.6 42k
Big Bend Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 449 106 1.30 9.6 6.4k
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 6,307 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 →