County annual report · FIPS 53005
2017 Benton County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Benton County, WA went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 0 customer-hours (Washington average 3.3 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 31 Washington counties and 2784th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with WA, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Washington customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2017
The 1 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 23, 2017 22:45 | December 23, 2017 23:00 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 0 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PacifiCorp | 2017 | 5.2 hrs | 2.01 | 2.4 hrs | 1.43 |
| City of Richland - (WA) | 2017 | 41 min | 0.94 | 41 min | 0.94 |
| PUD No 1 of Benton County | 2017 | 58 min | 0.47 | 58 min | 0.47 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| PUD No 1 of Klickitat County | - | - | - | - | - |
| Benton Rural Electric Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| PUD No 1 of Benton County,bentonpud | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 80,351 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. Benton County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, WA annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/washington/benton-county