When will the power be back in Covington, WA?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Covington is a city of about 21,567 residents in King County.
None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for Covington by name, so this page reports the King County county-wide view, which covers Covington. If a serving utility does name Covington during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.
Around Covington: the closest other places we track are Maple Valley, about 3 miles to the east; Kent, about 5 miles to the west; Auburn, about 7 miles to the southwest; and Renton, about 9 miles to the northwest. Also nearby: Des Moines (10 mi W), SeaTac (11 mi NW), Tukwila (11 mi NW), Federal Way (12 mi W), Newcastle (12 mi N), Sumner (12 mi SW), Issaquah (13 mi N) and Edgewood (13 mi SW).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Bellevue (16 mi); northeast toward Snoqualmie (17 mi); east toward Ellensburg (77 mi); southeast toward Enumclaw (13 mi); south toward Bonney Lake (13 mi); southwest toward Fife (15 mi); west toward Gig Harbor (23 mi); and northwest toward Burien (13 mi).
Who serves Covington?
We track live outage data from Puget Sound Energy, Seattle City Light and Tacoma Power ↗ in King County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. City of Milton, Tanner Electric Cooperative and PUD No. 1 of Chelan County also serve parts of King County — we don't yet read their own live outage maps.
Covington's last tracked outage began Aug 30, peaked at 2,629 customers out, and was restored in 3 hours.
- Aug 30 — 2,629 customers out, restored in 3 hours
County context: across all of King County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 13.3 hr. The full record for King County
