Curry County, Oregon Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

Curry County, Oregon had 10 major outages from 2019 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.19 times the US outage time per person and 1.06 times the Oregon rate. It ranks 9 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 5 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

5 of 5years with a major outage

26 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Junhardest months

December and June made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 25, 2019, reached 11,477 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 6.8 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
2019	127,482	20	3
2020	20,272	14	2
2021	20,732	13	1
2022	115,052	33	3
2023	47,955	22	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
Jun 25, 2019	6.8	11,477	68,879
Dec 9, 2022	17.8	10,797	56,685
Dec 27, 2022	26.0	1,877	29,998
Nov 26, 2019	22.8	3,502	28,494
Feb 23, 2023	24.0	5,760	20,725

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.