Power Out Map
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Power outage history

San Juan County Washington

13hours

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

4th most of 31 in Washington 1.9× the national median

Worst outage on record Jan 13, 2021 93% of customers out · 90% back in 11 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 13h / yr State average 5.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.1 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 5.0days Aug 9, 2019, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 4% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 32 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 15,569 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 San Juan'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

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 32 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

San Juan, hours without power per customer

San JuanUS median countyWashington average
0 10 20 30 40 ’17 1.9 ’18 4.8 ’19 5.0 ’20 24 ’21 32 ’22 22 ’23 5.0 ’24 6.0 ’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
Jan 13, 2021 No storm report 14,431 93% 20 h 11 h 262k
Dec 22, 2022 No storm report 14,728 95% 18 h 10 h 151k
Sep 25, 2023 No storm report 14,753 95% 7.8 h 8.0 h 112k
Dec 23, 2022 No storm report 14,732 95% 28 h 6.5 h 95k
Sep 15, 2022 No storm report 14,552 93% 6.5 h 7.5 h 92k
Sep 26, 2023 No storm report 14,738 95% 6.0 h 9.2 h 88k
Sep 27, 2023 No storm report 14,738 95% 5.0 h 3.5 h 53k
Feb 21, 2022 No storm report 9,615 62% 13 h 48 min 34k
Mar 26, 2025 No storm report 6,720 43% 6.5 h 7.5 h 31k
Nov 4, 2022 No storm report 1,821 12% 24 h 22 h 30k
May 26, 2023 No storm report 6,623 43% 4.2 h 10 h 28k
Aug 6, 2022 No storm report 6,594 42% 3.5 h 4.2 h 23k

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 +8h

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

  • No storm on record 96%
  • Flooding 1.8%
  • Windstorm 1.6%
  • Heat 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving San Juan

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
Orcas Power & Light Coop Cooperative 323 323 2.27 19.0 14k

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.

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 15,569 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 →