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2020 Marion County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Marion County, OR went without power for an average of 12.3 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (Oregon average 8.7 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 35 Oregon counties and 653rd 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 Marion 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 8, 2020 01:30 | October 14, 2020 18:30 | 36d 17h | 9,076 | 1.0M |
| 2 | July 18, 2020 04:45 | July 18, 2020 22:30 | 17h 45m | 3,465 | 11K |
| 3 | December 25, 2020 02:30 | December 25, 2020 07:30 | 5h | 3,252 | 5,924 |
| 4 | November 13, 2020 09:30 | November 14, 2020 02:15 | 16h 45m | 2,800 | 15K |
| 5 | August 7, 2020 14:45 | August 8, 2020 14:45 | 1d | 2,632 | 5,094 |
| 6 | January 10, 2020 16:15 | January 10, 2020 22:45 | 6h 30m | 2,424 | 2,653 |
| 7 | March 26, 2020 00:45 | March 27, 2020 01:30 | 1d | 2,392 | 16K |
| 8 | December 25, 2020 21:00 | December 26, 2020 20:30 | 23h 30m | 1,984 | 3,319 |
| 9 | February 8, 2020 04:45 | February 8, 2020 14:30 | 9h 45m | 1,605 | 3,938 |
| 10 | January 5, 2020 16:45 | January 6, 2020 04:30 | 11h 45m | 1,287 | 3,745 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 112 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Marion 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 |
| Portland General Electric Co | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 0.81 | 1.7 hrs | 0.60 |
| Consumers Power, Inc | 2020 | 25.2 hrs | 2.85 | 5.0 hrs | 1.79 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Salem Electric - (OR) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 102,062 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. Marion County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Marion 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/marion-county