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2022 Columbia County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Columbia County, WA went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 5,992 customer-hours (Washington average 6.6 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 33 Washington counties and 1934th 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 Columbia 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 | January 9, 2022 21:30 | January 10, 2022 00:15 | 2h 45m | 2,010 | 1,532 |
| 2 | November 2, 2022 04:15 | November 2, 2022 05:00 | 45m | 905 | 679 |
| 3 | December 30, 2022 11:30 | December 30, 2022 15:15 | 3h 45m | 126 | 442 |
| 4 | November 5, 2022 08:30 | November 6, 2022 20:30 | 1d 12h | 116 | 526 |
| 5 | May 25, 2022 04:15 | May 25, 2022 04:30 | 15m | 91 | 23 |
| 6 | April 4, 2022 15:00 | April 4, 2022 18:45 | 3h 45m | 78 | 293 |
| 7 | May 3, 2022 15:00 | May 3, 2022 17:30 | 2h 30m | 63 | 68 |
| 8 | February 1, 2022 15:00 | February 1, 2022 16:00 | 1h | 57 | 43 |
| 9 | June 3, 2022 01:45 | June 3, 2022 08:45 | 7h | 56 | 228 |
| 10 | October 22, 2022 04:15 | October 22, 2022 05:15 | 1h | 55 | 48 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 4 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Columbia 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 |
| Inland Power & Light Company | 2022 | 5.4 hrs | 1.46 | 3.4 hrs | 1.22 |
| Columbia Rural Elec Assn, Inc | 2022 | 6.6 hrs | 2.15 | 5.6 hrs | 1.98 |
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 ÷ 1,960 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. Columbia County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia 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/columbia-county