Washington power outages
Live outages across Washington from Puget Sound Energy, PacifiCorp (Pacific Power / Rocky Mountain Power) and Seattle City Light, updated every 10 minutes. 4 counties have customers without power right now.
Right now
Normal: scattered outages
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Normal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.270customers without power
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A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.Puget Sound Energy238 / 1,251,330
Seattle City Light3 / 470,380
Avista Corpno live feedServes part of the state, per federal utility records. Check its own outage map.
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This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.PUD No 1 of Snohomish County - (WA)no live feedServes part of the state, per federal utility records. Check its own outage map.
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This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.PUD No 1 of Clark County - (WA)no live feedServes part of the state, per federal utility records. Check its own outage map.
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This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.Outage map
<0.01%0.01%0.1%1%+ outno live feed
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Color shows the share of each county's customers without power right now.Counties with the most outages
4 counties with live data| County | Out | CustomersiA customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way. | % outiCustomers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area. |
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| Kitsap County | 185 | – | – |
| King County | 55 | – | – |
| Yakima County | 29 | – | – |
| Island County | 1 | – | – |
Outage history in Washington
2014–2025 recordWashington averaged 6.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for states.
In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 3. Half were over within 1.5 days; the longest lasted 1.7 days, starting December 17, 2025.
The largest on record began November 20, 2024, with 706,953 customers out at once.
Outages are most common in November.
6.3significant outages a year (2023–2025)
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At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.6.5 hourstypical (median) length
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Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.5.6 dayslongest on record (November 2015)
706,953most customers out at once
| Largest events (start) | Peak out | LastediHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power. | Customer-hoursiCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours. |
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| November 20, 2024 | 706,953 | 4.7 days | 24,844,591 |
| January 13, 2021 | 563,788 | 2.6 days | 12,067,764 |
| November 17, 2015 | 358,882 | 5.6 days | 13,151,300 |
| December 17, 2025 | 357,251 | 1.7 days | 5,921,306 |
| November 5, 2022 | 341,427 | 3.2 days | 8,286,533 |
Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).i
From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.
Counties in Washington
- Adams County
- Asotin County
- Benton County
- Chelan County
- Clallam County
- Clark County
- Columbia County
- Cowlitz County
- Douglas County
- Ferry County
- Franklin County
- Garfield County
- Grant County
- Grays Harbor County
- Island County
- Jefferson County
- King County
- Kitsap County
- Kittitas County
- Klickitat County
- Lewis County
- Lincoln County
- Mason County
- Okanogan County
- Pacific County
- Pend Oreille County
- Pierce County
- San Juan County
- Skagit County
- Skamania County
- Snohomish County
- Spokane County
- Stevens County
- Thurston County
- Wahkiakum County
- Walla Walla County
- Whatcom County
- Whitman County
- Yakima County
Utilities
- Puget Sound Energy
- PacifiCorp (Pacific Power / Rocky Mountain Power)
- Seattle City Light
- Avista Corp no live feed
- PUD No 1 of Snohomish County - (WA) no live feed
- PUD No 1 of Clark County - (WA) no live feed
- City of Tacoma - (WA) no live feed
- PUD No 1 of Benton County no live feed
- PUD No 2 of Grant County - (WA) no live feed
- PUD No 1 of Cowlitz County no live feed
- PUD No 1 of Chelan County - (WA) no live feed