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2017 Whatcom County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Whatcom County, WA went without power for an average of 17.5 hours, a total of 991K customer-hours (Washington average 3.3 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 31 Washington counties and 318th 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 Whatcom 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 | December 27, 2017 16:45 | December 31, 2017 00:15 | 3d 7h | 16,588 | 240K |
| 2 | February 4, 2017 05:15 | February 17, 2017 18:00 | 13d 12h | 9,662 | 323K |
| 3 | October 17, 2017 12:15 | October 20, 2017 04:00 | 2d 15h | 8,219 | 88K |
| 4 | November 13, 2017 11:15 | November 16, 2017 07:00 | 2d 19h | 5,138 | 16K |
| 5 | May 1, 2017 18:45 | May 2, 2017 04:00 | 9h 15m | 4,054 | 3,096 |
| 6 | September 11, 2017 20:30 | September 12, 2017 06:30 | 10h | 3,721 | 7,533 |
| 7 | October 11, 2017 17:45 | October 11, 2017 18:00 | 15m | 3,687 | 922 |
| 8 | November 26, 2017 11:45 | November 27, 2017 13:15 | 1d 1h | 3,429 | 7,860 |
| 9 | November 3, 2017 03:30 | November 5, 2017 01:30 | 1d 22h | 3,262 | 17K |
| 10 | January 10, 2017 17:00 | January 12, 2017 01:00 | 1d 8h | 2,605 | 20K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 96 reached 100+ customers, 34 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/whatcom-county