Power outages in Washington
Live outage status by county · updated ~every 15 minutes
402
customers reported out statewide · 4 counties reporting · 2 with 50+ customers out
Updated 5:21 AM PDT.
Includes 1 that a utility reports without saying which county — search your address for your exact status.
Significant outages (50+ customers, largest first)
King — 345 reported out · no reliable recovery trend yet
Thurston — 54 reported out · no reliable recovery trend yet
“Reporting” means at least one customer reported out in county-level data (the federal nationwide tally combined with utilities' own live data where we track them); “significant” means 50+ customers out — the floor for the active list above.
All Washington counties (39)
Utility coverage in Washington
Tracked utilities with dedicated pages
Puget Sound Energy (WA) · Seattle City Light (WA) · Avista (WA/ID) · Clark Public Utilities (WA) · PacifiCorp (Pacific Power / Rocky Mountain Power)
Also tracked live — opens in the app
Snohomish County PUD (WA) · Tacoma Power (WA) · Benton PUD (WA) · Cowlitz PUD (WA) · Inland Power & Light (WA) · Grays Harbor PUD (WA) · Douglas County PUD (WA) · Elmhurst Mutual Power & Light Co (WA) · Orcas Power & Light Cooperative (WA) · Big Bend Electric Cooperative (WA) · Lakeview Light & Power (WA) · Pend Oreille County PUD (WA) · +1 more — search any utility name on the live map
This is our tracking coverage, not a complete registry of every utility serving Washington.
Historical outage patterns in Washington
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy)
contain 15,825 county-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in Washington between 2014 and 2025 for the 36 counties the federal record covers — 393 of them major events of 10,000+ customers.
Half were restored within about 4.3 hr. The busiest year on record was 2024.
Largest single-county outage on record: ~518,386 customers out in King County in November 2024, restored after about 6.5 days.
Months that hit the widest area at once — these rank among the three largest outages ever recorded in the most counties: January 2021 (9 counties), December 2025 (8 counties) and September 2020 (5 counties).
Where restoration has historically taken longest: King County (~13.3 hr typical), Clallam County (~5.5 hr typical) and Kitsap County (~5.5 hr typical) — against ~4.3 hr statewide.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), 2014–2025. These are federal
historical records, not outages tracked live by this site. Statewide figures aggregate the same per-county records shown on each county page below;
the statewide restoration figure is the typical (middle) value across the per-county typical times, weighted by how many records each county has. A county appears in a “widest area” month when that month
produced one of its three largest recorded outages.
Common questions
Which utilities serve Washington?
Electric utilities we track in Washington include Puget Sound Energy, Seattle City Light, Snohomish County PUD, Avista and others. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.