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2019 Polk County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Polk County, OR went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 85K customer-hours (Oregon average 3.7 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 35 Oregon counties and 1767th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with OR, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Oregon customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Polk County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 3, 2019 13:45 | February 3, 2019 20:00 | 6h 15m | 2,984 | 1,496 |
| 2 | July 28, 2019 21:45 | July 29, 2019 00:15 | 2h 30m | 1,902 | 953 |
| 3 | December 20, 2019 01:45 | December 22, 2019 06:30 | 2d 4h | 1,762 | 21K |
| 4 | May 10, 2019 16:30 | May 11, 2019 06:15 | 13h 45m | 1,266 | 5,395 |
| 5 | July 1, 2019 20:00 | July 2, 2019 01:45 | 5h 45m | 1,103 | 1,915 |
| 6 | December 10, 2019 18:00 | December 11, 2019 11:15 | 17h 15m | 1,043 | 6,924 |
| 7 | March 28, 2019 13:00 | March 28, 2019 23:45 | 10h 45m | 564 | 582 |
| 8 | November 27, 2019 03:45 | November 27, 2019 11:00 | 7h 15m | 563 | 4,065 |
| 9 | February 25, 2019 08:00 | February 26, 2019 23:30 | 1d 15h | 529 | 2,738 |
| 10 | January 18, 2019 18:00 | January 19, 2019 06:15 | 12h 15m | 461 | 1,270 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 37 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Polk County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Monmouth - (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 86% of Oregon's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 31,803 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk County, OR annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/oregon/polk-county