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2017 Marion County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Marion County, OR went without power for an average of 8.4 hours, a total of 852K customer-hours (Oregon average 3.7 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 33 Oregon counties and 645th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with OR, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Oregon customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Marion 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 | April 7, 2017 13:30 | April 11, 2017 02:45 | 3d 13h | 19,325 | 408K |
| 2 | February 6, 2017 22:30 | February 7, 2017 10:30 | 12h | 13,016 | 97K |
| 3 | August 19, 2017 09:15 | August 19, 2017 15:00 | 5h 45m | 9,111 | 23K |
| 4 | January 12, 2017 02:00 | January 12, 2017 17:30 | 15h 30m | 8,519 | 27K |
| 5 | June 2, 2017 14:30 | June 5, 2017 19:00 | 3d 4h | 5,659 | 20K |
| 6 | October 21, 2017 08:45 | October 23, 2017 07:30 | 1d 22h | 3,658 | 16K |
| 7 | December 19, 2017 18:00 | December 20, 2017 04:15 | 10h 15m | 3,563 | 2,890 |
| 8 | February 8, 2017 12:30 | February 8, 2017 22:00 | 9h 30m | 3,454 | 20K |
| 9 | December 20, 2017 17:15 | December 21, 2017 05:15 | 12h | 3,234 | 1,762 |
| 10 | March 16, 2017 17:45 | March 16, 2017 20:45 | 3h | 3,071 | 4,291 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 94 reached 100+ customers, 22 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 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 |
| Portland General Electric Co | 2017 | 5.8 hrs | 1.04 | 1.9 hrs | 0.62 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/marion-county