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Who serves Cowlitz County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Cowlitz PUD, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. This is the utility we track here, not necessarily the only one serving it — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Cowlitz County, WA
Last significant outage: Oct 1, 2026 — peaked at 750 customers, restored in ~2 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 13 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 16, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Cowlitz County, WA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
161 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
1 major event of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in fall.
That is shorter than the Washington norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~4.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~12,176 customers out in December 2025, restored after about 19 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2024.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track in Cowlitz County
Communities in Cowlitz County include Longview, Kelso, Woodland, Kalama, Castle Rock, Beacon Hill, Cougar and Lexington. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Cowlitz County, WA?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Cowlitz include Cowlitz PUD — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
