Clatsop County, Oregon Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Clatsop County, Oregon had 18 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.83 times the US outage time per person and 1.64 times the Oregon rate. It ranks 5 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

7 of 7years with a major outage

51 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Novhardest months

December and November made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 27, 2022, reached 16,760 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 44.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	124,965	26	1
2018	116,648	28	1
2019	105,086	31	2
2020	148,746	43	1
2021	232,324	50	6
2022	397,232	57	4
2023	162,634	40	3

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
Dec 27, 2022	44.0	16,760	232,364
Feb 13, 2021	51.2	4,963	88,008
Sep 8, 2020	25.5	13,496	82,412
Mar 3, 2023	12.2	4,324	51,960
Dec 20, 2019	27.8	9,768	45,302

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.