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2020 Deschutes County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Deschutes County, OR went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 385K customer-hours (Oregon average 8.7 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 35 Oregon counties and 1970th 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 Deschutes 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 7, 2020 15:15 | November 16, 2020 20:45 | 70d 5h | 4,931 | 245K |
| 2 | May 30, 2020 20:45 | June 3, 2020 11:30 | 3d 14h | 4,737 | 63K |
| 3 | December 21, 2020 22:00 | December 22, 2020 09:15 | 11h 15m | 4,069 | 3,088 |
| 4 | August 15, 2020 22:15 | August 18, 2020 18:30 | 2d 20h | 3,886 | 2,909 |
| 5 | November 28, 2020 11:15 | November 28, 2020 11:30 | 15m | 3,086 | 772 |
| 6 | December 3, 2020 09:00 | December 3, 2020 09:15 | 15m | 3,084 | 771 |
| 7 | February 23, 2020 16:30 | February 24, 2020 09:45 | 17h 15m | 2,567 | 16K |
| 8 | June 28, 2020 19:00 | June 29, 2020 05:45 | 10h 45m | 2,343 | 1,188 |
| 9 | December 26, 2020 07:00 | December 26, 2020 07:15 | 15m | 2,174 | 544 |
| 10 | December 10, 2020 03:45 | December 10, 2020 09:45 | 6h | 2,078 | 722 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 46 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Deschutes 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 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Central Electric Coop Inc - (OR) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Harney Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midstate 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 ÷ 141,071 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. Deschutes County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Deschutes 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/deschutes-county