Linn County, Oregon Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Linn County, Oregon had 19 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.04 times the US outage time per person and 0.93 times the Oregon rate. It ranks 10 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

2.7major outages per year

5 of 7years with a major outage

497 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Febhardest months

September and February made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 8, 2020, reached 15,795 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 496.8 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	38,584	30	0
2018	95,216	60	2
2019	185,556	77	2
2020	675,998	87	2
2021	764,341	96	8
2022	436,785	78	5
2023	166,847	77	0

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	496.8	15,795	551,498
Feb 12, 2021	143.8	10,502	434,422
Sep 9, 2022	26.5	8,714	174,372
Dec 27, 2022	64.5	5,565	98,425
Jan 13, 2021	31.5	10,777	94,521

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.