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2016 Marion County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Marion County, OR went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 367K customer-hours (Oregon average 2.8 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 7 Oregon counties and 865th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with OR, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Oregon customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Marion County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 22, 2016 02:45 | September 22, 2016 22:15 | 19h 30m | 7,766 | 28K |
| 2 | October 15, 2016 17:30 | October 17, 2016 03:30 | 1d 10h | 7,257 | 58K |
| 3 | December 9, 2016 02:45 | December 9, 2016 07:15 | 4h 30m | 5,894 | 6,457 |
| 4 | June 4, 2016 21:15 | June 5, 2016 10:30 | 13h 15m | 5,099 | 18K |
| 5 | January 30, 2016 04:30 | January 30, 2016 08:30 | 4h | 3,608 | 7,979 |
| 6 | July 31, 2016 18:30 | August 1, 2016 03:30 | 9h | 3,382 | 9,147 |
| 7 | August 8, 2016 12:45 | August 8, 2016 15:45 | 3h | 3,279 | 6,295 |
| 8 | January 26, 2016 08:30 | January 26, 2016 15:30 | 7h | 3,051 | 7,802 |
| 9 | February 2, 2016 00:15 | February 2, 2016 06:00 | 5h 45m | 2,881 | 7,259 |
| 10 | April 4, 2016 17:00 | April 4, 2016 20:45 | 3h 45m | 2,827 | 7,284 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 98 reached 100+ customers, 32 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Marion County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PacifiCorp | 2016 | 3.8 hrs | 1.79 | 2.1 hrs | 1.18 |
| Portland General Electric Co | 2016 | 2.8 hrs | 0.79 | 1.6 hrs | 0.59 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Consumers Power, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Salem Electric - (OR) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Oregon's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 102,062 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Marion County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Marion County, OR annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/oregon/marion-county