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2024 Whatcom County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Whatcom County, WA went without power for an average of 9.8 hours, a total of 558K customer-hours (Washington average 12.1 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 34 Washington counties and 942nd 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 Whatcom 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 | December 8, 2024 04:15 | December 9, 2024 01:30 | 21h 15m | 7,953 | 13K |
| 2 | August 18, 2024 05:15 | August 19, 2024 07:30 | 1d 2h | 6,559 | 41K |
| 3 | January 8, 2024 19:15 | January 14, 2024 09:00 | 5d 13h | 6,121 | 62K |
| 4 | November 4, 2024 14:15 | November 6, 2024 06:45 | 1d 16h | 5,787 | 69K |
| 5 | December 14, 2024 10:15 | December 16, 2024 07:45 | 1d 21h | 4,515 | 24K |
| 6 | November 20, 2024 04:15 | November 22, 2024 02:45 | 1d 22h | 4,370 | 58K |
| 7 | October 27, 2024 20:15 | October 28, 2024 04:00 | 7h 45m | 4,010 | 4,880 |
| 8 | November 17, 2024 19:00 | November 17, 2024 22:15 | 3h 15m | 3,695 | 6,455 |
| 9 | November 18, 2024 17:00 | November 18, 2024 18:30 | 1h 30m | 3,577 | 5,366 |
| 10 | July 1, 2024 11:45 | July 2, 2024 00:30 | 12h 45m | 3,046 | 6,003 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 128 reached 100+ customers, 41 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 Whatcom 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puget Sound Energy Inc | 2024 | 19.9 hrs | 2.20 | 3.4 hrs | 1.20 |
| 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 n/a of Washington's customers in 2024; 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, 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/whatcom-county