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2024 Columbia County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Columbia County, WA went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 6,645 customer-hours (Washington average 12.1 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 34 Washington counties and 1998th 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 Columbia 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 | July 18, 2024 02:30 | July 18, 2024 09:15 | 6h 45m | 907 | 731 |
| 2 | October 27, 2024 13:15 | October 27, 2024 16:30 | 3h 15m | 292 | 149 |
| 3 | January 7, 2024 16:30 | January 7, 2024 21:15 | 4h 45m | 287 | 311 |
| 4 | June 17, 2024 05:45 | June 17, 2024 10:00 | 4h 15m | 157 | 605 |
| 5 | September 26, 2024 02:45 | September 26, 2024 09:00 | 6h 15m | 136 | 516 |
| 6 | December 18, 2024 16:15 | December 18, 2024 21:15 | 5h | 95 | 172 |
| 7 | December 6, 2024 15:00 | December 6, 2024 17:30 | 2h 30m | 71 | 94 |
| 8 | July 29, 2024 21:45 | July 30, 2024 17:15 | 19h 30m | 68 | 115 |
| 9 | July 12, 2024 05:00 | July 12, 2024 15:00 | 10h | 65 | 350 |
| 10 | June 26, 2024 13:30 | June 26, 2024 14:15 | 45m | 64 | 48 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 5 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 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 |
| Inland Power & Light Company | 2024 | 6.4 hrs | 1.20 | 4.6 hrs | 1.09 |
| Columbia Rural Elec Assn, Inc | 2024 | 4.3 hrs | 1.96 | 3.6 hrs | 1.96 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/columbia-county