County annual report · FIPS 41053
2016 Polk County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Polk County, OR went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 54K customer-hours (Oregon average 2.8 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 7 Oregon counties and 1455th 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 Polk 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 | October 15, 2016 18:45 | October 17, 2016 01:45 | 1d 7h | 2,484 | 27K |
| 2 | February 10, 2016 22:15 | February 11, 2016 08:45 | 10h 30m | 1,215 | 5,820 |
| 3 | January 16, 2016 19:45 | January 17, 2016 02:30 | 6h 45m | 1,176 | 2,910 |
| 4 | December 9, 2016 05:30 | December 9, 2016 11:30 | 6h | 836 | 667 |
| 5 | April 14, 2016 01:00 | April 14, 2016 04:30 | 3h 30m | 465 | 1,179 |
| 6 | October 14, 2016 01:15 | October 15, 2016 04:00 | 1d 2h | 398 | 1,278 |
| 7 | October 10, 2016 00:30 | October 10, 2016 09:15 | 8h 45m | 375 | 3,245 |
| 8 | February 10, 2016 00:15 | February 10, 2016 01:45 | 1h 30m | 356 | 534 |
| 9 | March 13, 2016 03:00 | March 13, 2016 06:00 | 3h | 298 | 552 |
| 10 | October 21, 2016 01:00 | October 21, 2016 07:00 | 6h | 248 | 1,424 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 18 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Polk 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) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Monmouth - (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 ÷ 31,803 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county