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2021 Lincoln County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lincoln County, WA went without power for an average of 5.7 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Washington average 8.7 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 33 Washington counties and 1203rd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with WA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Washington customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lincoln County, 2021
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 12, 2021 00:45 | September 12, 2021 11:30 | 10h 45m | 497 | 1,634 |
| 2 | July 17, 2021 08:30 | July 17, 2021 11:45 | 3h 15m | 482 | 1,447 |
| 3 | July 9, 2021 03:15 | July 9, 2021 09:15 | 6h | 393 | 1,663 |
| 4 | February 6, 2021 16:00 | February 6, 2021 20:45 | 4h 45m | 391 | 1,547 |
| 5 | April 19, 2021 04:00 | April 20, 2021 03:30 | 23h 30m | 361 | 468 |
| 6 | March 25, 2021 08:30 | March 25, 2021 11:00 | 2h 30m | 357 | 893 |
| 7 | January 13, 2021 08:45 | January 18, 2021 15:30 | 5d 6h | 316 | 3,337 |
| 8 | September 11, 2021 00:00 | September 11, 2021 22:45 | 22h 45m | 275 | 1,460 |
| 9 | October 12, 2021 13:00 | October 12, 2021 23:45 | 10h 45m | 238 | 704 |
| 10 | January 20, 2021 04:45 | January 20, 2021 08:30 | 3h 45m | 236 | 287 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 26 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 2021, 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 | 2021 | 16.1 hrs | 2.31 | 2.9 hrs | 1.29 |
| Inland Power & Light Company | 2021 | 11.9 hrs | 1.85 | 3.4 hrs | 1.24 |
| 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/washington/lincoln-county