Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Skagit County Washington

8.6hours

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

12th most of 31 in Washington 1.3× the national median

Worst outage on record Aug 29, 2015 36% of customers out · 90% back in 3.0 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 8.6h / yr State average 5.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.3 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 20hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.9days Jan 12, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 9% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 23 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 62,216 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 Skagit's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 23 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Skagit, hours without power per customer

SkagitUS median countyWashington average
0 10 20 30 15 ’15 8.1 ’16 7.6 ’17 6.2 ’18 3.0 ’19 6.9 ’20 23 ’21 5.7 ’22 4.4 ’23 9.9 ’24 10 ’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
Aug 29, 2015 No storm report 22,502 36% 3.7 d 3.0 d 783k
Jan 12, 2021 No storm report 21,175 34% 3.9 d 2.6 d 630k
Nov 15, 2021 Flooding 7,992 13% 2.6 d 20 h 288k
Dec 17, 2025 No storm report 13,754 22% 2.4 d 28 h 183k
Mar 9, 2016 No storm report 9,479 15% 42 h 26 h 139k
Nov 19, 2024 No storm report 7,061 11% 2.1 d 8.2 h 131k
Feb 4, 2018 No storm report 13,218 21% 29 h 13 h 111k
Sep 17, 2021 No storm report 6,712 11% 31 h 26 h 105k
Jan 31, 2020 No storm report 5,839 9% 46 h 32 h 102k
Oct 14, 2016 No storm report 6,265 10% 29 h 22 h 83k
Nov 10, 2023 No storm report 5,883 9% 21 h 16 h 70k
Nov 4, 2022 No storm report 3,648 6% 41 h 39 h 68k

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 +12h 90% by +28h

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

  • No storm on record 91%
  • Flooding 9.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Skagit

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
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 62,216 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 →