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2020 Whatcom County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Whatcom County, WA went without power for an average of 12.0 hours, a total of 683K customer-hours (Washington average 4.2 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 37 Washington counties and 664th 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 Whatcom 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 13:15 | October 21, 2020 09:00 | 7d 19h | 15,079 | 128K |
| 2 | January 13, 2020 02:15 | January 16, 2020 22:00 | 3d 19h | 9,020 | 93K |
| 3 | October 23, 2020 18:00 | October 23, 2020 18:30 | 30m | 7,507 | 3,754 |
| 4 | September 7, 2020 16:15 | September 8, 2020 13:45 | 21h 30m | 7,045 | 31K |
| 5 | March 13, 2020 21:30 | March 18, 2020 20:15 | 4d 22h | 6,471 | 85K |
| 6 | January 3, 2020 14:00 | January 4, 2020 23:30 | 1d 9h | 4,840 | 38K |
| 7 | June 17, 2020 09:15 | June 18, 2020 03:00 | 17h 45m | 4,116 | 1,439 |
| 8 | September 1, 2020 16:00 | September 2, 2020 01:30 | 9h 30m | 3,791 | 2,861 |
| 9 | May 27, 2020 17:00 | May 27, 2020 21:00 | 4h | 3,653 | 3,209 |
| 10 | May 13, 2020 13:45 | May 14, 2020 02:30 | 12h 45m | 3,524 | 2,300 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 112 reached 100+ customers, 39 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Whatcom 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Blaine - (WA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sumas - (WA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| PUD No 1 of Whatcom 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 ÷ 56,747 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. Whatcom County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Whatcom 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/whatcom-county