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2020 San Juan County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in San Juan County, WA went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 79K customer-hours (Washington average 4.2 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 37 Washington counties and 1383rd 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 San Juan 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 | November 5, 2020 04:15 | November 5, 2020 20:45 | 16h 30m | 4,858 | 1,242 |
| 2 | January 5, 2020 16:15 | January 5, 2020 21:00 | 4h 45m | 3,475 | 3,658 |
| 3 | January 10, 2020 16:15 | January 11, 2020 01:30 | 9h 15m | 1,986 | 8,939 |
| 4 | January 14, 2020 20:15 | January 15, 2020 03:15 | 7h | 1,568 | 2,972 |
| 5 | October 18, 2020 13:45 | October 18, 2020 18:30 | 4h 45m | 1,471 | 5,313 |
| 6 | February 26, 2020 17:15 | February 26, 2020 22:45 | 5h 30m | 903 | 1,162 |
| 7 | January 17, 2020 19:45 | January 17, 2020 20:00 | 15m | 897 | 224 |
| 8 | October 13, 2020 15:45 | October 14, 2020 07:45 | 16h | 854 | 2,039 |
| 9 | February 24, 2020 01:15 | February 24, 2020 02:15 | 1h | 851 | 851 |
| 10 | May 24, 2020 16:45 | May 24, 2020 19:00 | 2h 15m | 847 | 1,392 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 45 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 San Juan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orcas Power & Light Coop | 2020 | 3.7 hrs | 2.37 | 3.7 hrs | 2.37 |
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 ÷ 15,569 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. San Juan County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), San Juan 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/san-juan-county