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Bellingham power outage impacts over 2,700 Friday

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Bellingham power outage impacts over 2,700 Friday

By Staff on June 5, 2026 3:52pm

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Puget Sound Energy (PSE) reported an outage in the Bellingham area began shortly after 3pm on Friday, June 5, 2026.

Power outage map. Source: Puget Sound Energy

According to PSE, 2,733 of their business and residential customer addresses were impacted by the outage.

As of 3:35pm, the estimate for restoring power was 6:30pm. The cause remained under investigation.

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