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

Power outage history

Garfield County Washington

17hours

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

1st most of 31 in Washington 2.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Oct 13, 2024 100% of customers out · 90% back in 4.8 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 17h / yr State average 5.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 13.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 47hours Sep 7, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 8% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 26 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 968 ORNL customer model · 7 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 Garfield'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

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 26 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Garfield, hours without power per customer

GarfieldUS median countyWashington average
0 10 20 30 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 23 ’19 26 ’20 4.8 ’21 16 ’22 8.1 ’23 18 ’24 21 ’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
Oct 13, 2024 No storm report 968 100% 4.8 h 4.8 h 4.6k
Jan 16, 2025 No storm report 498 51% 13 h 22 h 4.4k
Feb 23, 2020 No storm report 261 27% 18 h 16 h 3.1k
Jan 9, 2022 No storm report 968 100% 2.8 h 3.0 h 2.7k
Dec 11, 2025 No storm report 302 31% 8.8 h 8.5 h 2.6k
Sep 7, 2020 No storm report 245 25% 47 h 22 h 2.6k
Jul 5, 2019 No storm report 590 61% 7.2 h 2.2 h 2.5k
Dec 14, 2025 No storm report 586 61% 4.8 h 4.2 h 2.4k
Apr 3, 2024 No storm report 509 53% 4.8 h 4.8 h 2.4k
Jan 7, 2022 Windstorm 968 100% 12 h 1.0 h 2.3k
Jun 2, 2022 No storm report 516 53% 6.8 h 2.8 h 2.1k
May 20, 2019 No storm report 732 76% 2.8 h 2.0 h 1.9k

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 +4h 90% by +6h

When it happens

The outage clock

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

00061218 Jan inside

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

  • No storm on record 92%
  • Windstorm 5.5%
  • Winter storm 1.0%
  • Wildfire 0.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Garfield

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
PacifiCorp Investor Owned 103 58 0.56 14.3 115k
Inland Power & Light Company Cooperative 536 283 2.55 9.6 42k
Clearwater Power Company ID – – – 12.1 11k

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 968 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 →