Malheur County, Oregon Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

Malheur County, Oregon had 1 major outage from 2018 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.26 times the US outage time per person and 0.24 times the Oregon rate. It ranks 28 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

1 of 6years with a major outage

9 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Aughardest months

January and August made up 38% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 16, 2020, reached 20,012 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 1.2 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
2018	15,532	18	1
2019	4,710	11	0
2020	34,759	16	0
2021	36,261	29	0
2022	10,806	13	0
2023	23,376	18	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
Jan 16, 2020	1.2	20,012	21,930
Jun 4, 2021	3.2	3,045	6,550
May 7, 2023	2.0	2,970	5,128
Aug 5, 2021	7.2	1,063	4,006
Jan 24, 2020	3.2	1,176	3,500

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.