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2025 Whatcom County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Whatcom County, WA went without power for an average of 6.7 hours, a total of 380K customer-hours (Washington average 7.0 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 33 Washington counties and 1199th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with WA, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Washington customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Whatcom County, 2025
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 15, 2025 09:30 | December 20, 2025 01:00 | 4d 15h | 6,129 | 78K |
| 2 | June 21, 2025 15:45 | June 22, 2025 02:15 | 10h 30m | 5,025 | 8,647 |
| 3 | September 3, 2025 22:00 | September 4, 2025 08:45 | 10h 45m | 2,995 | 4,628 |
| 4 | February 2, 2025 01:00 | February 2, 2025 10:30 | 9h 30m | 2,277 | 8,922 |
| 5 | August 4, 2025 16:45 | August 9, 2025 19:15 | 5d 2h | 2,257 | 4,629 |
| 6 | July 23, 2025 13:30 | July 24, 2025 03:30 | 14h | 2,206 | 3,347 |
| 7 | October 12, 2025 18:00 | October 14, 2025 16:15 | 1d 22h | 2,069 | 11K |
| 8 | November 27, 2025 22:30 | November 28, 2025 02:45 | 4h 15m | 1,962 | 1,979 |
| 9 | April 10, 2025 16:00 | April 14, 2025 21:00 | 4d 5h | 1,803 | 3,858 |
| 10 | February 1, 2025 04:15 | February 1, 2025 14:15 | 10h | 1,796 | 4,516 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 117 reached 100+ customers, 27 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/washington/whatcom-county