Morrow County, Oregon Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Morrow County, Oregon had 1 major outage from 2017 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.57 times the US outage time per person and 0.51 times the Oregon rate. It ranks 20 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

0.1major outages per year

1 of 7years with a major outage

50 hrslongest major outage

May, Julhardest months

May and July made up 85% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 30, 2020, reached 4,304 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	3,992	5	0
2018	11,291	20	0
2019	1,265	4	0
2020	97,883	8	1
2021	0	0	0
2022	2,974	6	0
2023	3,066	3	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
May 30, 2020	49.8	4,304	90,589
Jul 10, 2018	3.5	1,412	4,522
Feb 16, 2020	2.2	1,366	3,074
Jul 11, 2023	1.2	1,764	2,200
Jun 2, 2020	3.8	1,756	1,888

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.