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

Power outage history

Skamania County Washington

0.5hours

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

93% below the national median

Worst outage on record Sep 24, 2019 20% of customers out · 90% back in 1.5 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 0.5h / yr State average 5.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 6hours Sep 14, 2019, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days – Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2019 46 min without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,101 ORNL customer model · 2 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 Skamania'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

2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 46 min for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Skamania, hours without power per customer

SkamaniaUS median countyWashington average
0 2 4 6 8 ’17 0.8 ’19 0.1 ’20 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 24, 2019 No storm report 1,222 20% 1.0 h 1.5 h 993
Sep 7, 2019 No storm report 202 3% 3.8 h – 758
Sep 14, 2019 No storm report 202 3% 5.8 h – 508
Feb 12, 2019 No storm report 200 3% 2.0 h – 400
May 30, 2020 No storm report 130 2% 1.0 h – 128
Jan 12, 2020 No storm report 100 2% 1.2 h – 125
Jan 23, 2019 No storm report 71 1% 1.0 h – 71
Dec 3, 2019 No storm report 81 1% 48 min – 60
Jun 15, 2019 No storm report 71 1% 30 min – 36

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 Skamania 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 Skamania

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
PUD No 1 of Skamania Co WA 416 – 3.45 9.6 80k
PUD No 1 of Klickitat County Political Subdivision 272 272 0.92 12.6 12k

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+

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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 6,101 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 →