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2020 Benton County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Benton County, OR went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 119K customer-hours (Oregon average 8.7 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 35 Oregon counties and 2063rd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with OR, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Oregon customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 13, 2020 18:30 | September 14, 2020 03:15 | 8h 45m | 9,426 | 2,625 |
| 2 | August 6, 2020 15:00 | August 6, 2020 22:00 | 7h | 4,312 | 6,868 |
| 3 | September 25, 2020 16:15 | September 26, 2020 04:00 | 11h 45m | 4,284 | 4,398 |
| 4 | September 3, 2020 22:00 | September 4, 2020 05:45 | 7h 45m | 4,222 | 11K |
| 5 | September 18, 2020 03:00 | September 19, 2020 23:45 | 1d 20h | 3,785 | 4,001 |
| 6 | July 2, 2020 19:15 | July 2, 2020 21:15 | 2h | 3,665 | 3,665 |
| 7 | November 30, 2020 20:15 | December 1, 2020 02:00 | 5h 45m | 3,620 | 4,594 |
| 8 | December 18, 2020 20:30 | December 18, 2020 22:45 | 2h 15m | 2,597 | 1,320 |
| 9 | January 15, 2020 22:30 | January 16, 2020 03:15 | 4h 45m | 2,213 | 637 |
| 10 | September 8, 2020 02:45 | September 11, 2020 01:00 | 2d 22h | 2,168 | 21K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 57 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 6.8 hrs | 1.88 | 2.0 hrs | 1.22 |
| Consumers Power, Inc | 2020 | 25.2 hrs | 2.85 | 5.0 hrs | 1.79 |
| Emerald People's Utility Dist | 2013 | 1.6 hrs | 0.70 | 1.6 hrs | 0.70 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 90% of Oregon's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/oregon/benton-county