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2020 Lincoln County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lincoln County, WA went without power for an average of 22.5 hours, a total of 142K customer-hours (Washington average 4.2 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 37 Washington counties and 381st 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 Lincoln 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 7, 2020 15:45 | September 19, 2020 01:30 | 11d 9h | 2,059 | 93K |
| 2 | December 30, 2020 14:30 | December 30, 2020 15:00 | 30m | 1,249 | 478 |
| 3 | November 13, 2020 14:00 | November 15, 2020 22:00 | 2d 8h | 589 | 13K |
| 4 | July 7, 2020 11:00 | July 7, 2020 14:00 | 3h | 568 | 1,118 |
| 5 | October 25, 2020 23:00 | October 26, 2020 01:00 | 2h | 567 | 834 |
| 6 | June 28, 2020 15:00 | June 29, 2020 01:45 | 10h 45m | 462 | 438 |
| 7 | October 13, 2020 15:30 | October 14, 2020 23:45 | 1d 8h | 364 | 935 |
| 8 | October 23, 2020 21:45 | October 25, 2020 05:00 | 1d 7h | 339 | 3,163 |
| 9 | May 12, 2020 12:45 | May 12, 2020 18:00 | 5h 15m | 336 | 1,116 |
| 10 | July 14, 2020 16:30 | July 14, 2020 19:15 | 2h 45m | 336 | 255 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 35 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Lincoln 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 ÷ 6,307 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county