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2018 Benton County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Benton County, OR went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Oregon average 2.0 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 34 Oregon counties and 2343rd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with OR, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Oregon customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 25, 2018 13:45 | January 25, 2018 14:30 | 45m | 4,015 | 3,011 |
| 2 | April 16, 2018 13:45 | April 16, 2018 23:30 | 9h 45m | 2,555 | 900 |
| 3 | August 3, 2018 21:00 | August 3, 2018 23:00 | 2h | 2,546 | 638 |
| 4 | January 11, 2018 22:15 | January 12, 2018 00:45 | 2h 30m | 1,906 | 1,431 |
| 5 | October 4, 2018 21:15 | October 5, 2018 02:00 | 4h 45m | 1,070 | 4,812 |
| 6 | October 10, 2018 18:45 | October 11, 2018 03:30 | 8h 45m | 1,069 | 2,154 |
| 7 | November 1, 2018 13:00 | November 1, 2018 21:00 | 8h | 1,069 | 3,607 |
| 8 | June 9, 2018 22:15 | June 10, 2018 04:30 | 6h 15m | 805 | 1,925 |
| 9 | September 19, 2018 00:15 | September 19, 2018 00:45 | 30m | 739 | 321 |
| 10 | October 7, 2018 12:00 | October 7, 2018 17:30 | 5h 30m | 451 | 1,093 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 36 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 3.2 hrs | 1.62 | 2.0 hrs | 1.25 |
| 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 75% of Oregon's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/oregon/benton-county