PUD No 1 of Clallam County, WA
PUD No 1 of Clallam County's outage record
6.3 hours without power across 0.9 outages last year - PUD No 1 of Clallam County's Washington customers are well past the typical US utility's outage time. That is close to the Washington state average of 6.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at PUD No 1 of Clallam County looks like
A single outage here runs long, about 7.4 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 34,387 customers here, Outages at PUD No 1 of Clallam County run well above the national norm. You should get a backup generator here - it is a sound investment, not a luxury.
The source behind this number
PUD No 1 of Clallam County filed these numbers itself, as a political-subdivision utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Washington territory, serving 34,387 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.