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2020 Garfield County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Garfield County, WA went without power for an average of 25.8 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Washington average 4.2 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 37 Washington counties and 325th 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 Garfield 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 | September 19, 2020 20:30 | September 19, 2020 21:15 | 45m | 1,162 | 608 |
| 2 | March 18, 2020 03:15 | March 18, 2020 13:15 | 10h | 732 | 634 |
| 3 | February 12, 2020 19:15 | February 12, 2020 23:00 | 3h 45m | 710 | 1,437 |
| 4 | March 12, 2020 14:45 | March 12, 2020 23:00 | 8h 15m | 541 | 568 |
| 5 | May 1, 2020 17:45 | May 1, 2020 20:30 | 2h 45m | 447 | 340 |
| 6 | July 27, 2020 11:30 | July 27, 2020 18:00 | 6h 30m | 418 | 164 |
| 7 | October 13, 2020 18:45 | October 14, 2020 07:45 | 13h | 389 | 392 |
| 8 | July 29, 2020 08:00 | July 29, 2020 09:15 | 1h 15m | 306 | 164 |
| 9 | February 5, 2020 15:15 | February 5, 2020 15:45 | 30m | 298 | 75 |
| 10 | February 20, 2020 16:15 | February 21, 2020 00:30 | 8h 15m | 282 | 89 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 21 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 Garfield 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PacifiCorp | 2020 | 6.8 hrs | 1.88 | 2.0 hrs | 1.22 |
| Inland Power & Light Company | 2020 | 13.3 hrs | 1.97 | 3.9 hrs | 1.31 |
| Clearwater Power Company | 2018 | 16.6 hrs | 3.16 | 12.0 hrs | 2.91 |
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 ÷ 968 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. Garfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Garfield 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/garfield-county