Coos County, Oregon Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Coos County, Oregon had 11 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.87 times the US outage time per person and 0.78 times the Oregon rate. It ranks 15 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

5 of 7years with a major outage

68 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Dechardest months

January and December made up 60% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 3, 2022, reached 14,226 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 67.5 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	19,266	8	0
2018	139,215	29	2
2019	83,928	31	0
2020	87,439	42	3
2021	97,019	48	1
2022	425,681	44	2
2023	109,970	44	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
Jan 3, 2022	67.5	14,226	245,301
Dec 27, 2022	49.8	7,392	125,069
Dec 14, 2018	25.0	7,323	68,229
Jan 13, 2021	17.8	6,821	50,932
Dec 18, 2018	13.5	4,608	33,455

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.