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2020 Malheur County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Malheur County, OR went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Oregon average 8.7 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 35 Oregon counties and 2094th 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 Malheur 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 | January 16, 2020 22:15 | January 16, 2020 23:30 | 1h 15m | 20,012 | 22K |
| 2 | September 21, 2020 00:00 | September 21, 2020 04:15 | 4h 15m | 1,409 | 2,255 |
| 3 | January 24, 2020 08:45 | January 24, 2020 15:45 | 7h | 1,176 | 5,126 |
| 4 | July 30, 2020 06:30 | July 30, 2020 08:30 | 2h | 805 | 949 |
| 5 | January 10, 2020 01:45 | January 10, 2020 05:15 | 3h 30m | 747 | 2,613 |
| 6 | June 6, 2020 02:30 | June 6, 2020 07:00 | 4h 30m | 745 | 631 |
| 7 | May 31, 2020 02:30 | May 31, 2020 10:15 | 7h 45m | 411 | 1,200 |
| 8 | May 1, 2020 23:15 | May 1, 2020 23:30 | 15m | 392 | 98 |
| 9 | November 8, 2020 06:45 | November 8, 2020 09:45 | 3h | 286 | 858 |
| 10 | June 28, 2020 13:45 | June 28, 2020 14:45 | 1h | 218 | 190 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 27 reached 100+ customers, 3 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Malheur 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,164 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. Malheur County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Malheur 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/malheur-county