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2019 Whatcom County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Whatcom County, WA went without power for an average of 6.7 hours, a total of 378K customer-hours (Washington average 2.0 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 37 Washington counties and 828th 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 Whatcom 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 | August 25, 2019 23:30 | August 26, 2019 01:00 | 1h 30m | 13,294 | 20K |
| 2 | February 3, 2019 22:45 | February 5, 2019 23:00 | 2d | 13,270 | 90K |
| 3 | September 8, 2019 05:00 | September 10, 2019 06:30 | 2d 1h | 7,253 | 34K |
| 4 | October 10, 2019 03:00 | October 10, 2019 05:45 | 2h 45m | 5,204 | 8,641 |
| 5 | September 15, 2019 00:15 | September 16, 2019 14:45 | 1d 14h | 4,079 | 9,555 |
| 6 | September 28, 2019 09:00 | September 28, 2019 11:30 | 2h 30m | 3,705 | 2,158 |
| 7 | June 23, 2019 00:00 | June 23, 2019 05:00 | 5h | 3,319 | 4,007 |
| 8 | January 1, 2019 00:00 | January 4, 2019 03:00 | 3d 3h | 2,859 | 5,897 |
| 9 | July 3, 2019 16:15 | July 3, 2019 23:00 | 6h 45m | 2,181 | 586 |
| 10 | April 10, 2019 17:00 | April 11, 2019 03:00 | 10h | 1,932 | 2,422 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 112 reached 100+ customers, 32 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puget Sound Energy Inc | 2018 | 7.2 hrs | 1.52 | 2.4 hrs | 0.99 |
| 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 86% of Washington's customers in 2019; 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, 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/whatcom-county