PUD No 1 of Snohomish County, WA
PUD No 1 of Snohomish County's outage record
1.7 separate outages last year, 5.7 hours without power in total - that is PUD No 1 of Snohomish County's record for Washington, running ahead of the national median. That is 10% less outage time than the Washington state average of 6.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at PUD No 1 of Snohomish County looks like
Outages here average 3.3 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.
Do PUD No 1 of Snohomish County customers need a generator
Serving 390,607 customers here, PUD No 1 of Snohomish County customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
Where this number comes from
PUD No 1 of Snohomish County filed these numbers itself, as a political-subdivision utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Washington territory, serving 390,607 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Washington as a whole, across every utility that filed: Washington's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.