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2020 Columbia County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Columbia County, OR went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 348 customer-hours (Oregon average 8.7 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 35 Oregon counties and 2987th 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 Columbia 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 | April 14, 2020 20:00 | April 14, 2020 21:00 | 1h | 82 | 62 |
| 2 | May 8, 2020 18:00 | May 8, 2020 21:00 | 3h | 48 | 144 |
| 3 | May 13, 2020 22:15 | May 13, 2020 23:15 | 1h | 40 | 40 |
| 4 | April 28, 2020 18:15 | April 28, 2020 20:30 | 2h 15m | 7 | 16 |
| 5 | June 27, 2020 14:15 | June 27, 2020 16:15 | 2h | 7 | 14 |
| 6 | June 23, 2020 04:45 | June 23, 2020 09:00 | 4h 15m | 6 | 26 |
| 7 | January 4, 2020 08:00 | January 4, 2020 14:30 | 6h 30m | 5 | 31 |
| 8 | January 15, 2020 19:45 | January 15, 2020 21:00 | 1h 15m | 5 | 6 |
| 9 | February 10, 2020 04:30 | February 10, 2020 06:00 | 1h 30m | 5 | 8 |
| 10 | July 1, 2020 00:15 | July 1, 2020 03:15 | 3h | 1 | 3 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portland General Electric Co | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 0.81 | 1.7 hrs | 0.60 |
| Clatskanie Peoples Util Dist | 2020 | 6.2 hrs | 2.65 | 3.3 hrs | 1.74 |
| Columbia River Peoples Ut Dist | 2020 | 1.6 hrs | 0.70 | 66 min | 0.58 |
| 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 90% of Oregon's customers in 2020; 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, 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/columbia-county