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2020 Harney County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Harney County, OR went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 7,382 customer-hours (Oregon average 8.7 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 35 Oregon counties and 2535th 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 Harney 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 2, 2020 21:00 | September 2, 2020 22:15 | 1h 15m | 2,438 | 2,698 |
| 2 | August 17, 2020 22:30 | August 18, 2020 04:30 | 6h | 600 | 2,176 |
| 3 | July 30, 2020 07:30 | July 30, 2020 10:15 | 2h 45m | 370 | 897 |
| 4 | May 21, 2020 16:15 | May 21, 2020 19:15 | 3h | 186 | 558 |
| 5 | March 22, 2020 16:15 | March 22, 2020 18:15 | 2h | 74 | 72 |
| 6 | March 11, 2020 15:15 | March 11, 2020 17:15 | 2h | 58 | 116 |
| 7 | May 5, 2020 12:30 | May 5, 2020 14:30 | 2h | 40 | 43 |
| 8 | August 11, 2020 00:15 | August 11, 2020 01:30 | 1h 15m | 31 | 31 |
| 9 | January 31, 2020 16:45 | January 31, 2020 21:30 | 4h 45m | 30 | 42 |
| 10 | May 8, 2020 16:00 | May 8, 2020 18:30 | 2h 30m | 28 | 65 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 4 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Harney 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho Power Co | 2020 | 3.3 hrs | 1.10 | 2.7 hrs | 1.00 |
| Harney Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Oregon Trail El Cons 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 ÷ 5,605 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. Harney County has data for 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Harney 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/harney-county