City of Tacoma, WA
City of Tacoma's outage record
City of Tacoma customers in Washington had 0.9 interruptions last year, 2.9 hours total - a bit below the typical US utility's outage time. That is 55% less outage time than the Washington state average of 6.4 hours a year.
How long a single City of Tacoma outage runs
Outages here average 3.2 hours before power returns. At that length, continuous fuel supply matters more than stored capacity, which favors a standby generator over anything battery-based. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 161,290 customers here, Outages at City of Tacoma run below the national norm, so a generator is not urgent - still worth checking if you have medical equipment or a sump pump that cannot go without power.
Where this number comes from
City of Tacoma filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Washington territory, serving 161,290 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Washington as a whole, across every utility that filed: Washington's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.