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2021 Skagit County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Skagit County, WA went without power for an average of 22.8 hours, a total of 1.4M customer-hours (Washington average 8.7 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 33 Washington counties and 375th 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 Skagit 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 05:30 | January 18, 2021 05:15 | 4d 23h | 21,175 | 637K |
| 2 | November 14, 2021 02:30 | November 21, 2021 23:30 | 7d 21h | 7,992 | 307K |
| 3 | December 25, 2021 06:00 | December 31, 2021 00:15 | 5d 18h | 7,871 | 83K |
| 4 | September 17, 2021 15:45 | September 21, 2021 20:15 | 4d 4h | 6,712 | 109K |
| 5 | October 26, 2021 15:30 | October 27, 2021 23:00 | 1d 7h | 6,291 | 35K |
| 6 | October 28, 2021 14:30 | October 28, 2021 20:15 | 5h 45m | 4,909 | 6,702 |
| 7 | September 5, 2021 20:30 | September 6, 2021 08:15 | 11h 45m | 4,833 | 4,898 |
| 8 | April 30, 2021 05:15 | April 30, 2021 09:30 | 4h 15m | 4,405 | 5,369 |
| 9 | January 5, 2021 23:30 | January 6, 2021 22:00 | 22h 30m | 3,940 | 12K |
| 10 | February 13, 2021 09:30 | February 16, 2021 06:45 | 2d 21h | 2,762 | 21K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 99 reached 100+ customers, 31 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 Skagit 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puget Sound Energy Inc | 2021 | 14.2 hrs | 2.27 | 3.5 hrs | 1.26 |
| PUD No 1 of Snohomish County | 2021 | 10.7 hrs | 2.24 | 2.3 hrs | 1.29 |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/skagit-county