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2019 Columbia County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Columbia County, WA went without power for an average of 10.5 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Washington average 2.0 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 37 Washington counties and 519th 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 Columbia 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 | October 14, 2019 15:15 | October 15, 2019 00:30 | 9h 15m | 1,391 | 4,309 |
| 2 | April 24, 2019 14:30 | April 24, 2019 17:15 | 2h 45m | 689 | 716 |
| 3 | September 11, 2019 09:30 | September 11, 2019 14:15 | 4h 45m | 530 | 1,461 |
| 4 | October 29, 2019 02:15 | October 29, 2019 15:15 | 13h | 465 | 862 |
| 5 | May 13, 2019 22:15 | May 14, 2019 09:00 | 10h 45m | 443 | 343 |
| 6 | March 24, 2019 22:30 | March 25, 2019 05:30 | 7h | 395 | 234 |
| 7 | April 9, 2019 15:15 | April 10, 2019 00:45 | 9h 30m | 395 | 553 |
| 8 | July 12, 2019 14:00 | July 12, 2019 21:15 | 7h 15m | 371 | 1,348 |
| 9 | February 13, 2019 16:15 | February 14, 2019 00:15 | 8h | 249 | 569 |
| 10 | February 5, 2019 05:30 | February 5, 2019 10:30 | 5h | 202 | 963 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 15 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| Inland Power & Light Company | 2018 | 3.3 hrs | 1.55 | 3.3 hrs | 1.55 |
| Columbia Rural Elec Assn, Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 0.95 | 2.6 hrs | 0.95 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/columbia-county