PUD No 1 of Lewis County, WA
Power reliability at PUD No 1 of Lewis County
This grid runs rougher than most of the country: PUD No 1 of Lewis County's Washington customers saw 3.7 interruptions and 11 hours without power in the most recent year on file. That is 73% more outage time than the Washington state average of 6.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at PUD No 1 of Lewis County looks like
A single outage here runs long, about 3 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 36,079 customers here, Outages at PUD No 1 of Lewis 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 Lewis County filed these numbers itself, as a political-subdivision utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Washington territory, serving 36,079 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.