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2021 San Juan County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in San Juan County, WA went without power for an average of 24.0 hours, a total of 373K customer-hours (Washington average 8.7 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 33 Washington counties and 351st 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 San Juan 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 | January 13, 2021 09:15 | January 14, 2021 19:15 | 1d 10h | 14,431 | 262K |
| 2 | November 15, 2021 13:15 | November 16, 2021 03:00 | 13h 45m | 6,482 | 26K |
| 3 | June 27, 2021 04:45 | June 27, 2021 09:45 | 5h | 3,867 | 7,945 |
| 4 | March 7, 2021 11:15 | March 7, 2021 12:30 | 1h 15m | 3,865 | 2,636 |
| 5 | February 8, 2021 17:00 | February 8, 2021 22:00 | 5h | 3,841 | 14K |
| 6 | January 5, 2021 19:45 | January 6, 2021 07:00 | 11h 15m | 3,839 | 12K |
| 7 | February 12, 2021 01:15 | February 12, 2021 02:15 | 1h | 3,516 | 1,784 |
| 8 | December 11, 2021 09:00 | December 11, 2021 17:00 | 8h | 2,025 | 2,851 |
| 9 | December 30, 2021 21:00 | December 31, 2021 00:15 | 3h 15m | 1,835 | 4,224 |
| 10 | June 22, 2021 14:00 | June 22, 2021 22:45 | 8h 45m | 1,188 | 1,620 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 39 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 San Juan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orcas Power & Light Coop | 2021 | 27.5 hrs | 4.61 | 7.1 hrs | 2.69 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/san-juan-county