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2016 Lincoln County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lincoln County, WA went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (Washington average 3.2 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 21 Washington counties and 690th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with WA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Washington customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lincoln County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 8, 2016 17:00 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 45m | 2,219 | 1,129 |
| 2 | February 16, 2016 10:45 | February 16, 2016 13:30 | 2h 45m | 1,502 | 2,699 |
| 3 | June 5, 2016 18:15 | June 5, 2016 22:30 | 4h 15m | 1,486 | 2,241 |
| 4 | October 24, 2016 06:15 | October 24, 2016 13:00 | 6h 45m | 1,148 | 7,749 |
| 5 | September 17, 2016 18:15 | September 18, 2016 05:45 | 11h 30m | 745 | 2,460 |
| 6 | October 4, 2016 23:45 | October 5, 2016 09:30 | 9h 45m | 547 | 1,667 |
| 7 | June 4, 2016 05:15 | June 4, 2016 16:15 | 11h | 447 | 4,917 |
| 8 | June 3, 2016 02:00 | June 3, 2016 05:30 | 3h 30m | 344 | 1,204 |
| 9 | August 31, 2016 11:00 | August 31, 2016 15:00 | 4h | 181 | 724 |
| 10 | August 30, 2016 18:30 | August 30, 2016 19:15 | 45m | 166 | 123 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 14 reached 100+ customers, 4 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Lincoln County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avista Corp | 2016 | 2.2 hrs | 0.88 | 2.2 hrs | 0.88 |
| Inland Power & Light Company | 2016 | 4.2 hrs | 1.44 | 4.2 hrs | 1.44 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Avista Corp,avista | - | - | - | - | - |
| Big Bend Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| PUD No 2 of Grant County | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Washington's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,307 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln County, WA annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/washington/lincoln-county