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Washington Power Outages

As of July 18, 2026 17:01 UTC, about 2,000 customers are currently without power across 11 counties in Washington.

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COUNTIES WITH ACTIVE OUTAGES

MOST OUTAGE-PRONE COUNTIES (2025)

  1. 1Garfield County20.8h/cust
  2. 2Pend Oreille County20.1h/cust
  3. 3Pierce County19.4h/cust
  4. 4Kitsap County18.9h/cust
  5. 5Ferry County18.4h/cust
  6. 6Island County17.8h/cust
  7. 7Thurston County14.9h/cust
  8. 8Clallam County14.5h/cust
OUTAGE TREND
Washington
2,000
AS OF LAST UPDATE · PEAK 3,065
Updated July 18, 2026
1 PM6 PM1 AM7 AM1 PM

Cost of power in Washington

▲ 75% since 2010

What Washingtonpays for electricity, from the US EIA — and how fast it’s rising as national demand climbs. See energy & the AI data-center surge.

Residential
14.4¢
per kWh
Commercial
11.7¢
per kWh
Industrial
7.0¢
per kWh
RESIDENTIAL ¢/kWh BY YEAR
8.1¢20108.3¢20118.6¢20128.7¢20138.7¢20149.1¢20159.5¢20169.7¢20179.8¢20189.8¢20199.9¢202010.1¢202110.3¢202211.0¢202312.0¢202413.2¢202514.2¢2026

Retail prices from the US EIA (Form 861). Energy & the data-center surge →

Hardest-hit cities statewide

The individual towns and townships with the most customers out right now.

SeattleKING COUNTY822BellevueKING COUNTY822KentKING COUNTY822RentonKING COUNTY822Federal WayKING COUNTY822KirklandKING COUNTY822AuburnKING COUNTY822RedmondKING COUNTY822

A decade of outages in Washington

US annual reports →

Average hours without power per customer each year (EAGLE-I).

9.1h20153.2h20163.3h20172.1h20182.0h20194.2h20208.7h20216.6h20222.6h202312.1h20247.0h2025

Washington's worst year on record was 2024 (peak 518,386 customers out) · decade average 5.5 hrs per customer/yr.

See how Washington ranks against every state →

What causes outages in Washington

Share of outage-time by reported cause, aggregated across all counties.

Equipment failure
69.2%
Trees / vegetation
16.4%
Planned / maintenance
9.8%
Animal / wildlife
2.6%
Public-safety shutoff
0.9%
Weather / storm
0.6%
Vehicle / accident
0.5%

A reported cause is available for 72.8% of outage-time over 1 month of live data. Shares above are of the portion with a known cause.

Official reliability

Source: US EIA
EIA reliability not reported

Major disturbances (DOE)

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Electric providers in Washington

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