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2020 Skagit County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Skagit County, WA went without power for an average of 6.9 hours, a total of 428K customer-hours (Washington average 4.2 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 37 Washington counties and 1107th 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 Skagit 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 | January 31, 2020 14:45 | February 3, 2020 09:15 | 2d 18h | 5,839 | 105K |
| 2 | May 30, 2020 16:15 | May 31, 2020 06:30 | 14h 15m | 5,513 | 10K |
| 3 | November 8, 2020 03:30 | November 9, 2020 03:15 | 23h 45m | 4,572 | 13K |
| 4 | November 23, 2020 18:15 | November 23, 2020 22:30 | 4h 15m | 2,345 | 4,678 |
| 5 | July 28, 2020 22:15 | July 29, 2020 03:45 | 5h 30m | 2,264 | 2,109 |
| 6 | December 6, 2020 22:00 | December 7, 2020 04:30 | 6h 30m | 2,217 | 2,263 |
| 7 | January 15, 2020 03:45 | January 16, 2020 22:00 | 1d 18h | 2,090 | 16K |
| 8 | November 13, 2020 18:15 | November 15, 2020 09:00 | 1d 14h | 2,008 | 18K |
| 9 | February 4, 2020 18:15 | February 5, 2020 06:30 | 12h 15m | 1,983 | 2,635 |
| 10 | December 21, 2020 16:45 | December 22, 2020 01:45 | 9h | 1,968 | 1,509 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 105 reached 100+ customers, 24 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 Skagit 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 |
| PUD No 1 of Snohomish County | 2020 | 4.3 hrs | 1.69 | 2.2 hrs | 1.25 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puget Sound Energy Inc,pugetsoundenergy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 62,216 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. Skagit County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Skagit 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/skagit-county