Jefferson County, Oregon Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Jefferson County, Oregon had 5 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.75 times the US outage time per person and 0.67 times the Oregon rate. It ranks 16 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

5 of 7years with a major outage

50 hrslongest major outage

May, Julhardest months

May and July made up 40% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 30, 2020, reached 4,761 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 49.8 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	2,774	3	0
2018	9,986	8	1
2019	54,184	20	1
2020	98,974	13	1
2021	38,992	22	0
2022	62,066	18	1
2023	60,856	25	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
May 30, 2020	49.8	4,761	69,425
Dec 11, 2022	19.0	8,569	32,771
Feb 28, 2019	6.2	4,035	25,205
Nov 13, 2020	4.5	4,223	14,043
Jul 24, 2023	7.0	2,011	11,576

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.