Union County, Oregon Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

Union County, Oregon had 4 major outages from 2018 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.52 times the US outage time per person and 0.46 times the Oregon rate. It ranks 22 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

3 of 6years with a major outage

16 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Marhardest months

November and March made up 27% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 29, 2021, reached 2,009 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 14.0 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
2018	3,321	1	0
2019	7,973	4	0
2020	29,382	15	2
2021	83,667	19	1
2022	48,667	25	1
2023	26,038	15	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
Mar 29, 2021	14.0	2,009	21,635
Sep 5, 2021	7.5	4,501	20,270
Dec 19, 2022	3.8	4,745	17,141
Jul 1, 2021	7.5	3,190	15,303
Nov 4, 2022	10.0	3,473	11,020

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.