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2022 Whatcom County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Whatcom County, WA went without power for an average of 10.5 hours, a total of 595K customer-hours (Washington average 6.6 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 33 Washington counties and 687th 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 Whatcom 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 | November 5, 2022 00:45 | November 9, 2022 03:15 | 4d 2h | 12,732 | 114K |
| 2 | June 27, 2022 15:15 | June 29, 2022 22:30 | 2d 7h | 7,280 | 14K |
| 3 | December 23, 2022 19:15 | December 30, 2022 01:00 | 6d 5h | 5,663 | 161K |
| 4 | June 16, 2022 13:30 | June 21, 2022 12:45 | 4d 23h | 4,808 | 8,262 |
| 5 | June 23, 2022 14:00 | June 23, 2022 22:45 | 8h 45m | 4,440 | 5,046 |
| 6 | March 29, 2022 15:30 | April 5, 2022 10:15 | 6d 18h | 4,366 | 22K |
| 7 | November 29, 2022 16:45 | November 30, 2022 17:45 | 1d 1h | 4,150 | 12K |
| 8 | April 11, 2022 08:15 | April 11, 2022 09:00 | 45m | 3,363 | 2,522 |
| 9 | November 4, 2022 01:15 | November 4, 2022 08:00 | 6h 45m | 3,209 | 10K |
| 10 | June 9, 2022 13:30 | June 10, 2022 04:45 | 15h 15m | 2,817 | 2,743 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 120 reached 100+ customers, 36 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 Whatcom 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puget Sound Energy Inc | 2022 | 7.5 hrs | 1.66 | 3.3 hrs | 1.09 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puget Sound Energy Inc,pugetsoundenergy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Blaine - (WA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sumas - (WA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| PUD No 1 of Whatcom 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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 56,747 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. Whatcom County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Whatcom 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/whatcom-county