More than 8,000 Seattle City Light customers around Capitol Hill lost power, with the utility's outage map showing 8,430 customers in the dark. Power was restored by 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 10.
According to MyNorthwest.com, Seattle City Light's outage map reported the 8,430-customer figure for the area on November 10. Power was restored by 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, the outlet reported.
A separate storm hit the region Saturday night, November 7, before the Capitol Hill outage on Tuesday, November 10. A wind advisory was in effect through early Sunday morning, with south winds around 18 mph and gusts as high as 39 mph forecast, per capitolhillseattle.com. Those winds appear to have driven outages well beyond Capitol Hill itself, hitting several nearby neighborhoods that same Saturday night.
Outages Rippled Across Seattle Overnight
At 9:20 p.m. Saturday, November 7, during the windy stretch, Seattle City Light reported more than 4,500 customers without power in Leschi and nearly 4,000 more in the dark to the north in Montlake and Eastlake, the same Capitol Hill Seattle account noted. The next day, on the morning of November 8, the utility had reported around 1,700 customers without power around Miller Park, part of roughly 18,000 customers affected across Seattle that Sunday morning.
Seattle City Light's own outage map carries an important caveat: it does not include the underground network distribution areas in downtown Seattle, First Hill, and the University District, according to the city's seattle.gov outage-reporting page. That means the published customer counts may not fully capture conditions in those specific pockets of the city.
Thousands More Affected Region-Wide
Zooming out, the storm's toll stretched across western Washington. Seattle City Light said it had restored power to about 80% of the customers initially affected by the outages and was actively working on 143 different outages throughout the city at one point on Saturday, according to FOX 13 Seattle. The station also reported that around 15,000 customers remained without power across western Washington on Sunday morning.
Capitol Hill has seen large-scale outages before. In July 2025, nearly 10,000 customers across North Capitol Hill, North Broadway, and the eastern edge of 23rd Avenue lost power in a separate incident, the same local outlet reported at the time. That event is unrelated to Tuesday's outage, but it underscores how exposed the neighborhood's grid can be during severe weather.
Power was restored in the Capitol Hill outage by 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 10.
