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2017 Benton County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Benton County, OR went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 116K customer-hours (Oregon average 3.7 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 33 Oregon counties and 1514th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with OR, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Oregon customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 20, 2017 21:45 | December 20, 2017 22:00 | 15m | 9,050 | 2,263 |
| 2 | November 20, 2017 17:15 | November 20, 2017 20:45 | 3h 30m | 8,331 | 17K |
| 3 | September 10, 2017 17:00 | September 11, 2017 15:15 | 22h 15m | 3,978 | 63K |
| 4 | September 11, 2017 22:30 | September 12, 2017 00:30 | 2h | 3,954 | 3,955 |
| 5 | November 28, 2017 19:15 | November 28, 2017 19:30 | 15m | 3,293 | 823 |
| 6 | October 12, 2017 17:45 | October 12, 2017 19:30 | 1h 45m | 2,545 | 637 |
| 7 | September 7, 2017 17:15 | September 8, 2017 06:00 | 12h 45m | 2,245 | 2,837 |
| 8 | September 8, 2017 16:15 | September 8, 2017 22:15 | 6h | 1,986 | 4,012 |
| 9 | August 29, 2017 22:00 | August 29, 2017 23:15 | 1h 15m | 1,897 | 475 |
| 10 | September 1, 2017 19:00 | September 2, 2017 01:45 | 6h 45m | 1,083 | 2,140 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 26 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 5.2 hrs | 2.01 | 2.4 hrs | 1.43 |
| Emerald People's Utility Dist | 2013 | 1.6 hrs | 0.70 | 1.6 hrs | 0.70 |
| Consumers Power, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 48,456 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. Benton County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, OR annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/oregon/benton-county