Power Out Map
– 0% of Clark out 0 customers out in Washington

Power outage history

Clark County Washington

2.0hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

27th most of 31 in Washington 70% below the national median

Worst outage on record Dec 17, 2025 45% of customers out · 90% back in 15 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 2.0h / yr State average 5.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.3 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 14hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 25hours Dec 17, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 4% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 5.2 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 210,595 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Clark's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.2 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Clark, hours without power per customer

ClarkUS median countyWashington average
0 2 4 6 8 0.6 ’17 0.6 ’18 0.8 ’19 1.4 ’20 1.7 ’21 2.8 ’22 1.3 ’23 2.1 ’24 5.2 ’25 US 6.6 WA 5.3

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Dec 17, 2025 No storm report 94,192 45% 25 h 15 h 735k
Dec 27, 2022 No storm report 31,966 15% 20 h 13 h 233k
Sep 7, 2020 No storm report 15,789 8% 24 h 26 h 166k
Apr 11, 2022 No storm report 16,233 8% 17 h 16 h 122k
Jan 13, 2024 No storm report 7,281 3% 17 h 20 h 79k
Feb 15, 2021 No storm report 7,338 3% 16 h 22 h 78k
Jan 13, 2021 No storm report 13,732 7% 9.8 h 11 h 65k
Jan 4, 2023 No storm report 6,411 3% 19 h 17 h 64k
Jan 10, 2024 No storm report 5,491 3% 16 h 25 h 59k
Feb 24, 2025 Winter storm 8,692 4% 12 h 9.8 h 57k
Feb 13, 2025 No storm report 10,602 5% 13 h 11 h 42k
Apr 7, 2017 No storm report 5,687 3% 8.8 h 10 h 31k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +2h 90% by +4h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Clark from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 96%
  • Winter storm 3.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Clark

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Washington territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
PUD No 1 of Clark County Political Subdivision 298 52 1.63 10.6 223k
Bonneville Power Administration Federal – – – – –

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Washington

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Washington counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 210,595 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →