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2017 Thurston County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Thurston County, WA went without power for an average of 9.3 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (Washington average 3.3 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 31 Washington counties and 579th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with WA, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Washington customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Thurston 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 | May 4, 2017 23:45 | May 8, 2017 06:45 | 3d 7h | 38,367 | 626K |
| 2 | November 11, 2017 03:30 | November 18, 2017 13:45 | 7d 10h | 19,630 | 88K |
| 3 | April 7, 2017 09:30 | April 9, 2017 12:15 | 2d 2h | 14,577 | 112K |
| 4 | November 20, 2017 14:30 | November 20, 2017 23:00 | 8h 30m | 9,800 | 29K |
| 5 | February 6, 2017 00:30 | February 12, 2017 01:15 | 6d | 8,061 | 102K |
| 6 | September 26, 2017 06:15 | September 26, 2017 07:15 | 1h | 4,503 | 4,503 |
| 7 | February 21, 2017 07:30 | February 27, 2017 22:15 | 6d 14h | 3,980 | 8,671 |
| 8 | May 24, 2017 05:15 | May 24, 2017 23:00 | 17h 45m | 2,883 | 8,925 |
| 9 | March 2, 2017 16:15 | March 8, 2017 12:30 | 5d 20h | 2,862 | 11K |
| 10 | March 31, 2017 14:45 | March 31, 2017 17:30 | 2h 45m | 2,816 | 4,933 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 108 reached 100+ customers, 36 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Thurston 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puget Sound Energy Inc | 2017 | 8.0 hrs | 1.80 | 2.9 hrs | 1.12 |
| PUD No 1 of Lewis County | 2017 | 2.8 hrs | 1.21 | 2.2 hrs | 1.06 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puget Sound Energy Inc,pugetsoundenergy | - | - | - | - | - |
| PUD No 1 of Grays Harbor County | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tanner Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 141,017 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. Thurston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Thurston 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/thurston-county