Marion County, Oregon Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Marion County, Oregon had 23 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.07 times the US outage time per person and 1.84 times the Oregon rate. It ranks 4 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

202 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Sephardest months

February and September made up 79% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 12, 2021, reached 117,645 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 148.0 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
2015	298,615	100	2
2016	302,230	83	2
2017	753,793	81	2
2018	234,669	87	0
2019	399,611	112	3
2020	1,170,053	112	4
2021	11,972,548	127	6
2022	707,944	153	4
2023	220,912	107	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
Feb 12, 2021	148.0	117,645	9,404,408
Feb 18, 2021	62.8	34,532	1,315,274
Sep 8, 2020	202.5	9,076	562,124
Feb 21, 2021	60.0	13,835	528,068
Apr 7, 2017	65.2	19,325	405,994

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.