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2018 Skagit County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Skagit County, WA went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 389K customer-hours (Washington average 2.1 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 27 Washington counties and 872nd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with WA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Washington customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Skagit County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 4, 2018 14:15 | February 5, 2018 22:45 | 1d 8h | 13,218 | 111K |
| 2 | June 22, 2018 16:00 | June 22, 2018 17:30 | 1h 30m | 5,075 | 5,828 |
| 3 | June 2, 2018 22:45 | June 3, 2018 07:30 | 8h 45m | 4,593 | 8,487 |
| 4 | December 20, 2018 12:30 | December 20, 2018 19:15 | 6h 45m | 3,144 | 1,060 |
| 5 | August 13, 2018 07:15 | August 13, 2018 07:30 | 15m | 2,666 | 667 |
| 6 | December 23, 2018 09:00 | December 28, 2018 09:45 | 5d | 2,269 | 36K |
| 7 | December 28, 2018 15:00 | December 28, 2018 15:15 | 15m | 2,236 | 559 |
| 8 | December 3, 2018 16:00 | December 3, 2018 23:00 | 7h | 1,959 | 8,783 |
| 9 | November 18, 2018 16:15 | November 18, 2018 23:30 | 7h 15m | 1,948 | 8,742 |
| 10 | August 11, 2018 22:30 | August 12, 2018 00:15 | 1h 45m | 1,903 | 3,330 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 100 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Skagit County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 7.2 hrs | 1.52 | 2.4 hrs | 0.99 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puget Sound Energy Inc,pugetsoundenergy | - | - | - | - | - |
| PUD No 1 of Snohomish 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 71% of Washington's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 62,216 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. Skagit County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Skagit County, WA annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/washington/skagit-county