Klickitat County Washington

0.6hours

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

92% below the national median

Worst outage on record Sep 24, 2019 10% of customers out · 90% back in 1.5 hours

Hours without power, average customer per year 0.6h / yr State average 5.3 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 0.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% – Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 11hours Sep 5, 2019, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 50% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2019 41 min without power, average customer

Electricity customers 12,711 ORNL customer model · 2 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 Klickitat'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

2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 41 min for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Klickitat, hours without power per customer

KlickitatUS median countyWashington average

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
May 30, 2020	Thunderstorms	459	4%	7.8 h	–	3.0k
Sep 5, 2019	No storm report	230	2%	11 h	–	2.4k
Sep 24, 2019	No storm report	1,220	10%	1.0 h	1.5 h	992
Sep 7, 2019	Thunderstorms	203	2%	3.8 h	–	760
Jun 25, 2019	No storm report	180	1%	2.5 h	–	418
Feb 12, 2019	Winter storm	205	2%	2.0 h	–	402
Mar 24, 2019	No storm report	273	2%	1.0 h	–	273

When it happens

The outage clock

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

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

No storm on record 50%
Thunderstorms 46%
Winter storm 4.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Klickitat

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 Klickitat County	Political Subdivision	272	272	0.92	12.6	12k
Yakama Power	Cooperative	402	101	1.47	7.5	1.9k
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

Sherman, OR 6.9 h
Hood River, OR 3.4 h
Gilliam, OR 2.6 h
Yakima 2.5 h
Morrow, OR 2.4 h
Wasco, OR 1.7 h
Benton 1.3 h
Klickitat (this county) 0.6 h
Skamania 0.5 h

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 12,711 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 →