Power outages in Washington, by utility
Across 20 Washington utilities that reported to the federal government, the median customer went without power for 5.2 hours in 2025 — that is 1.7× the national median. Washington ranks #8 of 41 states for outage time, worst first.
- Median utility
- 5.2 hrs
- typical customer
- Worst utility
- 17.3 hrs
- PUD No 1 of Grays Harbor County
- Best utility
- 0.6 hrs
- PUD No 1 of Benton County
- Utilities reporting
- 20
- of 752 nationwide
Every reporting Washington utility, worst outage time first
| # | Utility | Outage time/yr | Outages/yr | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PUD No 1 of Grays Harbor CountyPolitical Subdivision | 17.3 hrs1036 min | 2.8 | 5.8× worse |
| 2 | PUD No 1 of Jefferson CountyPolitical Subdivision | 12.9 hrs774 min | 3.8 | 4.3× worse |
| 3 | Peninsula Light CompanyCooperative | 12.4 hrs745 min | 4.2 | 4.2× worse |
| 4 | PUD No 1 of Lewis County - (WA)Political Subdivision | 11 hrs663 min | 3.7 | 3.7× worse |
| 5 | Puget Sound Energy IncInvestor Owned | 9.7 hrs580 min | 1.6 | 3.3× worse |
| 6 | Inland Power & Light CompanyCooperative | 8.9 hrs536 min | 2.5 | 3.0× worse |
| 7 | Big Bend Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 7.5 hrs449 min | 1.3 | 2.5× worse |
| 8 | PUD No 1 of Snohomish County - (WA)Political Subdivision | 5.7 hrs343 min | 1.7 | 1.9× worse |
| 9 | PUD No 1 of Chelan County - (WA)Political Subdivision | 5.5 hrs327 min | 0.8 | 1.8× worse |
| 10 | Orcas Power & Light CoopCooperative | 5.4 hrs323 min | 2.3 | 1.8× worse |
| 11 | PUD No 1 of Clark County - (WA)Political Subdivision | 5 hrs298 min | 1.6 | 1.7× worse |
| 12 | PUD No 1 of Cowlitz CountyPolitical Subdivision | 3.6 hrs219 min | 1.3 | 1.2× worse |
| 13 | Columbia Rural Elec Assn, IncCooperative | 3.3 hrs200 min | 1.6 | 1.1× worse |
| 14 | Avista CorpInvestor Owned | 3.3 hrs200 min | 1.0 | 1.1× worse |
| 15 | City of Tacoma - (WA)Municipal | 2.9 hrs172 min | 0.9 | 1.0× better |
| 16 | City of Seattle - (WA)Municipal | 2.6 hrs158 min | 1.0 | 1.1× better |
| 17 | City of Centralia - (WA)Municipal | 2.4 hrs143 min | 0.7 | 1.2× better |
| 18 | PacifiCorpInvestor Owned | 1.7 hrs103 min | 0.6 | 1.7× better |
| 19 | City of Richland - (WA)Municipal | 0.6 hrs39 min | 0.4 | 4.6× better |
| 20 | PUD No 1 of Benton CountyPolitical Subdivision | 0.6 hrs36 min | 0.3 | 4.9× better |
Outage time is SAIDI: the average minutes a customer went without power across the year, storms and major events included. Outages/yr is SAIFI. The US median across all reporting utilities is 3 hours (178 minutes).
What these numbers do and do not say
SAIDI counts the minutes an average customer spent without power over the year, including storms and other major events. We rank on the figure that includes them, because excluding storms would describe a year nobody actually lived through.
Utilities report these numbers themselves, and smaller co-ops and municipal systems often serve rural territory where a single line fault affects a large share of customers. A high number is not automatically mismanagement — but it is still the power you did not have.
Utilities that filed no reliability data are left out entirely rather than counted as zero.