You can rest assured that our professionals at Pacific Power do their utmost to protect the reliability of your electric supply. Still, outages sometimes happen.

Key causes of power outages

• Trees, limbs or branches knocked down by wind, snow or ice into power lines.
• Lightning striking a transformer or other electrical facilities.
• Car accidents where utility poles are knocked over or sway enough to knock the lines together and trip off the circuit.
• Equipment overload, especially on hot days when air conditioning usage is high, or during extremely cold weather when electric heaters are turned up throughout the electrical system.
• Digging too close to lines or cutting a line.
• Animals that contact the lines.
• Circuit overloads within your own home. Check your fuses and breakers first. If they continue to trip off, call a local electrician to handle the problem.

To report an outage or a downed power line, please call 1-877-LITESOUT (548-3768). For more information on outages, contact 1-888-221-7070.