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2016 Whatcom County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Whatcom County, WA went without power for an average of 12.6 hours, a total of 714K customer-hours (Washington average 3.2 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 21 Washington counties and 269th 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 Whatcom 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 | March 9, 2016 17:00 | March 12, 2016 02:00 | 2d 9h | 22,878 | 336K |
| 2 | October 14, 2016 00:15 | October 17, 2016 04:15 | 3d 4h | 17,687 | 130K |
| 3 | March 13, 2016 07:00 | March 22, 2016 20:00 | 9d 13h | 7,363 | 51K |
| 4 | October 13, 2016 11:00 | October 13, 2016 21:45 | 10h 45m | 3,466 | 6,485 |
| 5 | March 23, 2016 16:45 | March 24, 2016 00:15 | 7h 30m | 3,375 | 2,147 |
| 6 | May 10, 2016 17:30 | May 10, 2016 18:00 | 30m | 3,283 | 1,642 |
| 7 | June 18, 2016 04:45 | June 19, 2016 03:00 | 22h 15m | 3,160 | 8,262 |
| 8 | February 5, 2016 21:00 | February 6, 2016 10:30 | 13h 30m | 2,524 | 4,918 |
| 9 | December 8, 2016 02:45 | December 8, 2016 06:45 | 4h | 2,300 | 5,673 |
| 10 | May 11, 2016 19:45 | May 12, 2016 03:30 | 7h 45m | 1,980 | 1,517 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 91 reached 100+ customers, 25 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Whatcom 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puget Sound Energy Inc | 2016 | 6.5 hrs | 1.63 | 2.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puget Sound Energy Inc,pugetsoundenergy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Blaine - (WA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sumas - (WA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| PUD No 1 of Whatcom 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 ÷ 56,747 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. Whatcom County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Whatcom 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/whatcom-county