Benton County, Oregon Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Benton County, Oregon had 7 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.53 times the US outage time per person and 0.47 times the Oregon rate. It ranks 21 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

5 of 7years with a major outage

104 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Sephardest months

February and September made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 13, 2021, reached 11,133 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 103.8 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	90,380	17	1
2018	26,565	24	0
2019	24,174	23	0
2020	79,588	42	1
2021	403,702	55	3
2022	193,255	44	1
2023	74,230	48	1

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Feb 13, 2021	103.8	11,133	256,551
Dec 27, 2022	61.8	8,096	82,593
Sep 10, 2017	18.8	3,978	62,437
Nov 26, 2022	7.2	7,213	39,523
Jan 13, 2021	23.5	5,793	37,544

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.