Lincoln County, Oregon Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Lincoln County, Oregon had 17 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.23 times the US outage time per person and 1.99 times the Oregon rate. It ranks 3 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

6 of 7years with a major outage

97 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Febhardest months

September and February made up 65% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 8, 2020, reached 16,512 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 96.8 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	14,972	7	0
2018	28,895	16	1
2019	43,696	15	1
2020	1,043,563	39	5
2021	248,746	73	5
2022	303,774	70	4
2023	268,434	38	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
Sep 8, 2020	96.8	16,512	854,670
Feb 23, 2023	71.0	14,843	196,242
Jan 3, 2022	41.2	10,921	78,321
Sep 12, 2020	90.2	2,870	64,027
Dec 27, 2022	79.8	3,040	56,350

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.