County annual report · FIPS 53037
2020 Kittitas County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Kittitas County, WA went without power for an average of 8.4 hours, a total of 177K customer-hours (Washington average 4.2 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 37 Washington counties and 914th 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 Kittitas 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 | October 13, 2020 20:45 | October 15, 2020 13:45 | 1d 17h | 8,930 | 51K |
| 2 | November 11, 2020 00:30 | November 12, 2020 00:00 | 23h 30m | 2,255 | 2,423 |
| 3 | January 6, 2020 17:45 | January 8, 2020 04:45 | 1d 11h | 2,220 | 16K |
| 4 | November 13, 2020 18:00 | November 14, 2020 10:15 | 16h 15m | 1,660 | 15K |
| 5 | June 24, 2020 05:15 | June 25, 2020 07:45 | 1d 2h | 1,597 | 2,857 |
| 6 | January 1, 2020 08:00 | January 4, 2020 00:30 | 2d 16h | 1,467 | 11K |
| 7 | November 12, 2020 15:30 | November 13, 2020 02:30 | 11h | 1,418 | 1,197 |
| 8 | October 21, 2020 18:30 | October 22, 2020 06:15 | 11h 45m | 1,382 | 1,415 |
| 9 | December 15, 2020 23:00 | December 16, 2020 03:45 | 4h 45m | 1,253 | 440 |
| 10 | May 31, 2020 00:15 | June 3, 2020 05:30 | 3d 5h | 1,225 | 25K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 44 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Kittitas 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puget Sound Energy Inc | 2020 | 6.9 hrs | 1.70 | 2.9 hrs | 1.06 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puget Sound Energy Inc,pugetsoundenergy | - | - | - | - | - |
| PUD No 2 of Grant County | - | - | - | - | - |
| PUD No 1 of Chelan County | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ellensburg - (WA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| PUD No 1 of Kittitas 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 ÷ 21,055 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. Kittitas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kittitas 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/kittitas-county