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2022 Benton County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Benton County, WA went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 117K customer-hours (Washington average 6.6 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 33 Washington counties and 2525th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with WA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Washington customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 30, 2022 06:15 | July 30, 2022 08:45 | 2h 30m | 11,998 | 9,838 |
| 2 | February 9, 2022 16:15 | February 10, 2022 00:00 | 7h 45m | 7,616 | 7,908 |
| 3 | April 11, 2022 12:45 | April 12, 2022 23:00 | 1d 10h | 5,677 | 10K |
| 4 | August 29, 2022 23:15 | August 30, 2022 04:00 | 4h 45m | 5,344 | 2,976 |
| 5 | December 22, 2022 09:00 | December 22, 2022 14:15 | 5h 15m | 3,093 | 8,509 |
| 6 | November 5, 2022 02:15 | November 8, 2022 01:30 | 2d 23h | 2,842 | 18K |
| 7 | October 21, 2022 22:15 | October 22, 2022 05:30 | 7h 15m | 2,503 | 4,348 |
| 8 | January 14, 2022 09:15 | January 14, 2022 14:15 | 5h | 983 | 2,722 |
| 9 | May 8, 2022 06:45 | May 8, 2022 12:15 | 5h 30m | 942 | 4,482 |
| 10 | August 31, 2022 19:15 | August 31, 2022 22:00 | 2h 45m | 912 | 692 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 38 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PacifiCorp | 2022 | 5.2 hrs | 1.58 | 1.8 hrs | 1.11 |
| City of Richland - (WA) | 2022 | 4.4 hrs | 1.74 | 16 min | 0.50 |
| PUD No 1 of Benton County | 2022 | 2.2 hrs | 1.06 | 58 min | 0.35 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| PUD No 1 of Klickitat County | - | - | - | - | - |
| Benton Rural Electric Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| PUD No 1 of Benton County,bentonpud | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 80,351 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. Benton County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, WA annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/washington/benton-county