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2018 Columbia County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Columbia County, OR went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 1,071 customer-hours (Oregon average 2.0 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 34 Oregon counties and 2709th 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 Columbia County, 2018
The 6 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 2, 2018 07:30 | January 2, 2018 12:15 | 4h 45m | 41 | 195 |
| 2 | April 24, 2018 17:30 | April 24, 2018 22:00 | 4h 30m | 41 | 184 |
| 3 | May 26, 2018 20:45 | May 27, 2018 05:00 | 8h 15m | 41 | 338 |
| 4 | July 31, 2018 10:45 | July 31, 2018 19:15 | 8h 30m | 41 | 349 |
| 5 | January 21, 2018 23:00 | January 21, 2018 23:30 | 30m | 5 | 3 |
| 6 | October 27, 2018 13:00 | October 27, 2018 13:45 | 45m | 5 | 4 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 0 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Columbia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portland General Electric Co | 2018 | 88 min | 0.52 | 88 min | 0.52 |
| Clatskanie Peoples Util Dist | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.39 | 54 min | - |
| Columbia River Peoples Ut Dist | 2018 | 46 min | 0.44 | 25 min | 0.33 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| West Oregon Electric Coop 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 ÷ 28,312 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. Columbia County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia 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/columbia-county