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Power Outages in Yakima County, WA

Is there a power outage in Yakima County, WA right now? Yes. As of October 19, 2026 16:50 UTC, about 9 customers are without power in Yakima County, WA across 3 reported incidents. There is no live feed for Bonneville Power Administration and Yakama Power, so outages in their service area aren't counted.

Yakima County, WA is served by 5 tracked utilities. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 3.5 hours.

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Scattered outages

9 customers without power

0.0% of Yakima County · across 3 reported incidents.

Not counted: no live feed for Bonneville Power Administration and Yakama Power.

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No outage contact on file for PacifiCorp, Bonneville Power Administration, PUD No 1 of Klickitat County, Benton Rural Electric Assn and Yakama Power; check your electric bill or the utility's website.

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Live status by utility · Yakima County

0.0%of this county's ~121,560 customers are served by utilities with a county-level live feed.

Blind spots

We can't see outages for: Bonneville Power Administration, Yakama Power. Their customers are not in any number on this page; check their own outage maps.

UtilityFeedOutServed% outSmall outagesIncidentsUtility ETRAs of
Benton Rural Electric AssnLive · county0---0-
PUD No 1 of Klickitat CountyLive · countyno county report------
PacifiCorpLive · county9---3-
Bonneville Power AdministrationNo live feedcan't see------
Yakama PowerNo live feedcan't see------

Benton Rural Electric Assn and PacifiCorp reportevery town in the county on each poll, so 0 out is a real all-clear. ETRs are the utility's own estimates.

Active outages in Yakima County3

Individual outages as listed by PacifiCorp, largest first. “<N” means the utility only publishes that the outage affects fewer than N customers.

CustomersCauseCrew statusUtility ETRStartedUtility
5Planned Maintenance---PacifiCorp
3Planned Maintenance---PacifiCorp
1Investigating---PacifiCorp

Electricity-dependent residents

HHS emPOWER · data October 7, 2026

Medicare beneficiaries in Yakima Countywho rely on electricity-dependent medical equipment (ventilators, oxygen concentrators, home dialysis, powered wheelchairs, and more). HHS reports counts of 1–10 as “≤11”. Medicare only, so the full at-risk population is larger.

Power-dependent
2,401
Oxygen service
641
Dialysis (facility)
376
Home health / hospice
316
By ZIP code (21)
ZIPPower-dependentVentilatorsO2 concentratorsHome dialysis
98908425≤1131613
98902396≤1128913
98901253≤11179≤11
98903218≤11144≤11
98942190≤11125≤11
98944106073≤11
9893092≤1153≤11
9894870≤1142≤11
9895165≤1144≤11
9895359034≤11
9893750≤1138≤11
9893646032≤11
9894724≤11170
98932170≤11≤11
9893516≤11≤11≤11
9895214012≤11
98933130≤11≤11
98938120≤110
98939≤110≤110
98923≤11≤11≤11≤11
98907≤110≤11≤11

Emergency managers can request identified beneficiary lists through their state health department via the HHS emPOWER program.

🔔 Alerts for Yakima County, WA

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Recent NWS alert activity · Yakima County

Yakima County has been under 15 National Weather Service alerts recently, most recently a Freeze Warning on October 13, 2026.

  • Wind Advisory ×5
  • Freeze Warning ×4
  • Special Weather Statement ×4
  • Freeze Watch ×2

Latest Yakima County, WA outage updates

A running log of how this outage has changed, updated automatically as utilities report in.

  1. RESOLVED

    Power restored after 20m

  2. OUTAGE BEGAN

    Outage began: 6,167 customers out (5.1% of the county)

  3. RESOLVED

    Power restored after 34m

  4. OUTAGE BEGAN

    Outage began: 2,097 customers out (1.7% of the county)

Outage trend · Yakima County, WA
6customers out
Data as of Oct 19, 2026 16:40 UTC
Yakima County, WA: customers without power, last 24 hoursPeak 6 customers out; latest 6 as of Oct 19, 2026 16:40 UTC. Each point is the highest reading in its interval.02466 PMOct 196 AM12 PM
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Times in EDT. Shaded stretches had no reading.

Hardest-hit cities in Yakima County

Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.

Per-city live breakdown needs data

Live outage counts are tracked at the county level; a city-by-city split within Yakima Countyisn't available yet.

Historical reliability

In 2025, the average customer in Yakima County went about 3.5 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 37,233 customers.

Official state benchmark (EIA 2025)Source: US EIA

The US EIA reports Washington utilities averaged 6.6 hrs without power per customer (SAIDI) in 2025, a cross-check on our county estimate of 3.5 hrs.

A decade of outages (2015–2025)
avg hrs without power / customer
Yakima County average outage hours per customer by year2015–2025: 2015 0.0h, 2017 1.2h, 2018 2.3h, 2019 1.3h, 2020 4.1h, 2021 2.2h, 2022 1.9h, 2023 1.5h, 2024 3.9h, 2025 3.5h. Highlighted: 2020.02460.0h20151.2h20172.3h20181.3h20194.1h20202.2h20211.9h20221.5h20233.9h20243.5h2025
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Worst year here was 2020 (peak 13,560 customers out) · decade average 2.2 hrs without power per customer/yr.

YearOutage eventsPeak customers outAvg hrs/customer
2015110.0
20173104,8791.2
201881410,6182.3
20198146,1721.3
202076313,5604.1
20217838,2392.2
20228013,3781.9
20238012,9121.5
202477637,2333.9
20256604,3293.5

Cost of power in Yakima County

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Estimated residential electricity price for Yakima County, customer-weighted across the utilities serving it (US EIA, 2025). Retail prices aren't published at the county level; this is a derived estimate.

13.7¢/kWh
estimated residential average
▲ 54% since 2015
vs Washington avg 14.7¢
vs US avg 20.0¢
BY UTILITY · RESIDENTIAL ¢/kWh

Weighted by each utility's residential customer count (utilities report customers at the state level; a per-county share isn't published). Rising retail prices track a national demand surge; see energy & the data-center boom. What that adds up to each month, by state and utility: average electric bill.

What causes outages here

Share of outage-time by reported cause, from live ODIN utility reports. Why does my power keep going out? →

Outage causes by share of outage-timeEquipment failure 44.8%, Trees / vegetation 40.7%, Planned / maintenance 14.5%Equipment failureEquipment failure44.8%Trees / vegetationTrees / vegetation40.7%Planned / maintenancePlanned / maintenance14.5%
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A reported cause is available for 2.8% of outage-time over 2 months of live data. Shares are of the portion with a known cause; bars are scaled to the largest cause.
Worst recorded outages
STARTEDPEAK OUTDURATION
May 30, 202437,23317h
June 21, 202420,92023h
May 8, 202413,6804h
May 30, 202013,5603d 11h
June 15, 202412,63616h 30m
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Natural hazards & outage risk
ELEVATED

Relatively High wildfire exposure · 2.2 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.

WildfireRelatively High
Strong windRelatively Moderate
FloodingRelatively Moderate
Heat waveRelatively Moderate
EarthquakeRelatively Moderate

FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively high: outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.

All hazard rankings →

Power outages in Yakima County: FAQ

How often does Yakima County, WA lose power?
Based on EAGLE-I records, Yakima County, WA logged 660 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 3.5 hours without power per customer over the year.
What was the worst power outage in Yakima County, WA?
The largest tracked outage peaked at 37,233 customers without power, beginning May 30, 2024 and lasting about 17h.
Is there a power outage in Yakima County, WA right now?
Yes. As of October 19, 2026 16:50 UTC, about 9 customers are without power in Yakima County, WA across 3 reported incidents. There is no live feed for Bonneville Power Administration and Yakama Power, so outages in their service area aren't counted.
Which utilities serve Yakima County, WA?
Tracked electric providers include Benton Rural Electric Assn, PacifiCorp.
Nearby counties
Benton CountyGrant CountyKing CountyKittitas County
Cities & towns in Yakima County

Yakima. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Yakima County level shown above.

ZIP codes in Yakima County

Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Yakima County.

98901, 98902, 98903, 98908, 98921, 98923, 98930, 98932, 98933, 98935, 98936, 98937, 98938, 98939, 98942, 98947, 98948, 98951, 98952, 98953

Electric providers serving this county

From EIA-861 service territory, with official reliability where reported. Territory is filed by county, so these are the utilities with lines anywhere in Yakima County, not the one at a given address. All electric companies in Washington →

ProviderOfficial SAIDI (EIA)LiveReport outage
PacifiCorp3.5 hrsLive · county-
Bonneville Power Administration-No live feed-
PUD No 1 of Klickitat County-Live · county-
Benton Rural Electric Assn-Live · county-
Yakama Power-No live feed-

Data from DOE/ORNL ODIN, DOE EAGLE-I, EIA Form 861 (utility reliability), EIA electricity retail prices and FEMA National Risk Index, every source we read. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Washington customers). Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/53077 and /api/v1/counties/53077/history. Live data as of .