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

Power outage history

Yakima County Washington

2.5hours

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

23rd most of 31 in Washington 61% below the national median

Worst outage on record May 30, 2020 11% of customers out · 90% back in 38 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 2.5h / yr State average 5.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.6 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 43hours May 30, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 36% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 4.1 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 120,501 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 Yakima'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 4.1 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Yakima, hours without power per customer

YakimaUS median countyWashington average
0 2 4 6 8 ’15 1.1 ’17 2.3 ’18 1.3 ’19 4.1 ’20 2.1 ’21 1.9 ’22 1.5 ’23 3.8 ’24 3.4 ’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
May 30, 2020 Thunderstorms 13,560 11% 43 h 38 h 242k
Jun 15, 2024 No storm report 12,636 10% 15 h 11 h 90k
Aug 23, 2018 Wildfire 3,868 3% 18 h – 58k
May 9, 2021 No storm report 6,179 5% 9.0 h 5.8 h 52k
Dec 17, 2025 No storm report 4,329 4% 13 h – 30k
Jul 24, 2020 No storm report 2,185 2% 12 h – 26k
Sep 7, 2020 Windstorm 2,699 2% 13 h – 24k
Oct 21, 2017 No storm report 2,382 2% 14 h – 23k
Jun 21, 2024 No storm report 20,920 17% 2.0 h 1.8 h 22k
May 8, 2024 No storm report 13,680 11% 2.2 h 1.2 h 21k
Nov 15, 2021 Windstorm 8,239 7% 6.2 h 6.0 h 16k
Aug 11, 2018 No storm report 3,856 3% 8.2 h – 16k

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 +2h 90% by +2h

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

  • No storm on record 64%
  • Thunderstorms 21%
  • Wildfire 6.8%
  • Windstorm 5.5%
  • Winter storm 1.9%
  • Heat 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Yakima

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
PacifiCorp Investor Owned 103 58 0.56 14.3 115k
Benton Rural Electric Assn Cooperative 304 156 0.95 9.7 14k
PUD No 1 of Klickitat County Political Subdivision 272 272 0.92 12.6 12k
Yakama Power Cooperative 402 101 1.47 7.5 1.9k
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 120,501 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 →