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

Power outage history

Kittitas County Washington

8.0hours

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

13th most of 31 in Washington 1.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Dec 17, 2025 32% of customers out · 90% back in 24 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 8.0h / yr State average 5.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 5hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.0days Dec 21, 2015, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 14% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 13 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 21,055 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 Kittitas'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

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 13 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Kittitas, hours without power per customer

KittitasUS median countyWashington average
0 5 10 15 8.9 ’15 1.9 ’16 2.5 ’17 3.0 ’18 4.9 ’19 8.4 ’20 9.6 ’21 13 ’22 2.8 ’23 11 ’24 11 ’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 6,665 32% 2.5 d 24 h 105k
Dec 21, 2015 Winter storm 2,090 10% 4.0 d 24 h 90k
Aug 18, 2024 No storm report 1,710 8% 2.3 d 2.2 d 68k
Jan 6, 2022 Winter storm 4,113 20% 37 h 26 h 62k
Jan 13, 2021 No storm report 4,228 20% 32 h 29 h 55k
Nov 17, 2015 No storm report 2,138 10% 2.1 d 37 h 53k
Nov 4, 2022 No storm report 2,987 14% 46 h 25 h 51k
Oct 13, 2020 No storm report 8,930 42% 31 h 48 min 51k
Jan 3, 2022 No storm report 2,422 12% 31 h 18 h 41k
Jan 16, 2022 No storm report 1,233 6% 25 h 22 h 30k
Jul 23, 2019 No storm report 4,664 22% 6.5 h 6.2 h 30k
Dec 8, 2025 No storm report 1,307 6% 22 h 12 h 27k

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 +8h 90% by +26h

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 Kittitas from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 86%
  • Winter storm 13%
  • Windstorm 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Kittitas

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
Puget Sound Energy Inc Investor Owned 580 178 1.60 17.0 1.1M
PUD No 1 of Kittitas County WA 621 160 1.76 – 61k
PUD No 2 of Grant County Political Subdivision 84 – 0.42 6.2 43k
PUD No 1 of Chelan County Political Subdivision 327 77 0.82 3.8 43k
City of Ellensburg Municipal – – – 11.1 8.8k
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+

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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 21,055 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 →