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2019 Benton County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Benton County, WA went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 65K customer-hours (Washington average 2.0 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 37 Washington counties and 2577th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with WA, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Washington customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 7, 2019 16:00 | September 7, 2019 20:30 | 4h 30m | 5,345 | 12K |
| 2 | April 24, 2019 13:30 | April 25, 2019 00:45 | 11h 15m | 5,047 | 1,559 |
| 3 | June 1, 2019 13:30 | June 1, 2019 22:00 | 8h 30m | 1,563 | 4,298 |
| 4 | August 10, 2019 06:15 | August 10, 2019 22:30 | 16h 15m | 1,457 | 2,102 |
| 5 | November 14, 2019 15:45 | November 15, 2019 23:00 | 1d 7h | 962 | 326 |
| 6 | November 13, 2019 19:15 | November 14, 2019 03:00 | 7h 45m | 960 | 770 |
| 7 | November 18, 2019 15:15 | December 12, 2019 22:15 | 24d 7h | 713 | 13K |
| 8 | May 23, 2019 15:00 | May 23, 2019 17:45 | 2h 45m | 663 | 337 |
| 9 | September 16, 2019 15:30 | September 16, 2019 23:15 | 7h 45m | 532 | 616 |
| 10 | May 21, 2019 00:00 | May 22, 2019 00:30 | 1d | 504 | 1,258 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 27 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 2019, 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 | 2018 | 3.2 hrs | 1.62 | 2.0 hrs | 1.25 |
| City of Richland - (WA) | 2018 | 47 min | 1.07 | 21 min | 1.02 |
| PUD No 1 of Benton County | 2018 | 84 min | 0.91 | 53 min | 0.43 |
| 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 86% of Washington's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/washington/benton-county