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2024 Cowlitz County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Cowlitz County, WA went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 260K customer-hours (Washington average 12.1 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 34 Washington counties and 1580th 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 Cowlitz 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 | April 25, 2024 20:30 | April 26, 2024 00:15 | 3h 45m | 7,598 | 14K |
| 2 | January 9, 2024 08:15 | January 9, 2024 20:45 | 12h 30m | 7,479 | 32K |
| 3 | December 26, 2024 05:45 | December 29, 2024 22:30 | 3d 16h | 5,113 | 35K |
| 4 | October 27, 2024 09:00 | October 27, 2024 19:30 | 10h 30m | 3,409 | 9,784 |
| 5 | March 19, 2024 05:45 | March 19, 2024 09:45 | 4h | 2,932 | 7,528 |
| 6 | August 1, 2024 15:45 | August 2, 2024 03:15 | 11h 30m | 2,149 | 2,934 |
| 7 | January 9, 2024 23:30 | January 11, 2024 05:15 | 1d 5h | 1,929 | 13K |
| 8 | June 6, 2024 05:45 | June 6, 2024 19:45 | 14h | 1,743 | 1,521 |
| 9 | July 14, 2024 09:15 | July 14, 2024 18:45 | 9h 30m | 1,663 | 2,906 |
| 10 | November 19, 2024 23:30 | November 20, 2024 14:45 | 15h 15m | 1,581 | 3,154 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 93 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Cowlitz 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 |
| PUD No 1 of Lewis County | 2024 | 12.0 hrs | 3.71 | 10.1 hrs | 3.30 |
| PUD No 1 of Cowlitz County | 2024 | 4.4 hrs | 1.72 | 2.1 hrs | 1.00 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 50,751 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. Cowlitz County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cowlitz 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/cowlitz-county