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2024 Benton County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Benton County, WA went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 67K customer-hours (Washington average 12.1 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 34 Washington counties and 2770th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with WA, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Washington customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 3, 2024 01:30 | June 3, 2024 04:00 | 2h 30m | 5,820 | 12K |
| 2 | February 19, 2024 21:15 | February 26, 2024 20:15 | 6d 23h | 2,438 | 2,032 |
| 3 | June 28, 2024 13:00 | June 29, 2024 02:45 | 13h 45m | 2,412 | 3,082 |
| 4 | November 8, 2024 12:15 | November 8, 2024 13:45 | 1h 30m | 2,009 | 2,669 |
| 5 | September 17, 2024 15:15 | September 18, 2024 01:00 | 9h 45m | 1,543 | 1,076 |
| 6 | February 9, 2024 18:30 | February 9, 2024 21:45 | 3h 15m | 1,426 | 2,379 |
| 7 | July 13, 2024 01:00 | July 13, 2024 15:15 | 14h 15m | 1,139 | 2,125 |
| 8 | April 10, 2024 21:15 | April 10, 2024 23:30 | 2h 15m | 1,125 | 1,591 |
| 9 | August 6, 2024 05:00 | August 6, 2024 07:15 | 2h 15m | 986 | 2,219 |
| 10 | May 29, 2024 04:00 | May 29, 2024 23:30 | 19h 30m | 974 | 549 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 41 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 4.6 hrs | 1.67 | 2.0 hrs | 1.11 |
| Benton Rural Electric Assn | 2024 | 31.4 hrs | 1.41 | 2.6 hrs | 1.09 |
| City of Richland - (WA) | 2024 | 1.6 hrs | 0.73 | 1.6 hrs | 0.73 |
| PUD No 1 of Benton County | 2024 | 53 min | 0.50 | 40 min | 0.40 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| PUD No 1 of Klickitat County | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 n/a of Washington's customers in 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/washington/benton-county