Kittitas County, Washington Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Kittitas County, Washington had 22 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.87 times the US outage time per person and 1.08 times the Washington rate. It ranks 17 of 34 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

42 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Dechardest months

January and December made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 6, 2022, reached 4,113 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 37.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Washington counties

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	178,568	25	6
2016	25,312	13	0
2017	40,030	16	0
2018	48,676	19	1
2019	67,500	28	0
2020	144,776	42	5
2021	168,739	50	5
2022	203,516	29	4
2023	45,026	30	1

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Jan 6, 2022	37.2	4,113	61,954
Jan 13, 2021	31.5	4,228	55,401
Nov 5, 2022	42.2	2,987	50,661
Oct 13, 2020	26.0	8,930	49,446
Jan 3, 2022	30.8	2,422	41,039

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.