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2020 Adams County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Adams County, WA went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (Washington average 4.2 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 37 Washington counties and 1908th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with WA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Washington customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Adams County, 2020
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 23, 2020 19:00 | February 24, 2020 23:15 | 1d 4h | 1,462 | 23K |
| 2 | December 25, 2020 07:00 | December 28, 2020 17:30 | 3d 10h | 920 | 793 |
| 3 | July 9, 2020 09:00 | July 9, 2020 17:15 | 8h 15m | 568 | 2,384 |
| 4 | May 6, 2020 15:15 | May 7, 2020 00:30 | 9h 15m | 431 | 690 |
| 5 | September 19, 2020 12:00 | September 19, 2020 16:00 | 4h | 384 | 405 |
| 6 | September 7, 2020 16:45 | September 8, 2020 20:45 | 1d 4h | 360 | 1,445 |
| 7 | September 24, 2020 14:30 | September 24, 2020 23:45 | 9h 15m | 251 | 83 |
| 8 | February 1, 2020 18:00 | February 2, 2020 05:00 | 11h | 237 | 353 |
| 9 | October 13, 2020 21:45 | October 14, 2020 08:15 | 10h 30m | 212 | 285 |
| 10 | May 30, 2020 13:45 | May 30, 2020 23:30 | 9h 45m | 208 | 718 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 14 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 Adams County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avista Corp | 2020 | 5.1 hrs | 1.56 | 2.2 hrs | 0.91 |
| Inland Power & Light Company | 2020 | 13.3 hrs | 1.97 | 3.9 hrs | 1.31 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Avista Corp,avista | - | - | - | - | - |
| Big Bend Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| PUD No 2 of Grant 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 87% of Washington's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 14,910 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. Adams County has data for 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Adams County, WA annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/washington/adams-county