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2018 Marion County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Marion County, OR went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 335K customer-hours (Oregon average 2.0 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 34 Oregon counties and 1417th 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 Marion 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 | May 16, 2018 00:15 | May 16, 2018 10:00 | 9h 45m | 5,132 | 28K |
| 2 | March 8, 2018 15:30 | March 8, 2018 22:15 | 6h 45m | 4,850 | 9,466 |
| 3 | December 2, 2018 09:15 | December 2, 2018 23:30 | 14h 15m | 3,550 | 13K |
| 4 | September 27, 2018 19:00 | September 28, 2018 22:30 | 1d 3h | 3,424 | 10K |
| 5 | April 21, 2018 18:30 | April 22, 2018 01:15 | 6h 45m | 3,354 | 5,310 |
| 6 | November 4, 2018 14:30 | November 4, 2018 21:15 | 6h 45m | 3,196 | 1,848 |
| 7 | June 17, 2018 23:45 | June 19, 2018 13:00 | 1d 13h | 2,892 | 12K |
| 8 | July 18, 2018 08:00 | July 18, 2018 14:30 | 6h 30m | 2,802 | 14K |
| 9 | October 28, 2018 01:00 | October 28, 2018 02:45 | 1h 45m | 2,659 | 3,993 |
| 10 | December 8, 2018 07:30 | December 8, 2018 17:00 | 9h 30m | 2,639 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 94 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 Marion 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 |
| Portland General Electric Co | 2018 | 88 min | 0.52 | 88 min | 0.52 |
| 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 75% of Oregon's customers in 2018; 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, 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/marion-county