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2017 Columbia County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Columbia County, WA went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 271 customer-hours (Washington average 3.3 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 31 Washington counties and 2531st 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 Columbia County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 7, 2017 16:30 | November 7, 2017 21:45 | 5h 15m | 326 | 86 |
| 2 | December 20, 2017 21:30 | December 20, 2017 21:45 | 15m | 66 | 17 |
| 3 | November 29, 2017 20:30 | November 29, 2017 23:45 | 3h 15m | 18 | 10 |
| 4 | December 23, 2017 22:30 | December 24, 2017 06:00 | 7h 30m | 17 | 60 |
| 5 | September 18, 2017 17:15 | September 18, 2017 19:45 | 2h 30m | 9 | 12 |
| 6 | December 4, 2017 14:15 | December 4, 2017 15:15 | 1h | 9 | 5 |
| 7 | December 13, 2017 05:00 | December 13, 2017 10:45 | 5h 45m | 7 | 39 |
| 8 | December 16, 2017 00:45 | December 16, 2017 02:00 | 1h 15m | 5 | 6 |
| 9 | December 16, 2017 16:30 | December 16, 2017 17:30 | 1h | 5 | 5 |
| 10 | October 12, 2017 20:15 | October 12, 2017 21:45 | 1h 30m | 4 | 6 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 1 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 Columbia 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 |
| Inland Power & Light Company | 2017 | 4.1 hrs | 2.05 | 4.1 hrs | 2.05 |
| Columbia Rural Elec Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,960 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. Columbia County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia 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/columbia-county