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2020 Multnomah County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Multnomah County, OR went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 1.8M customer-hours (Oregon average 8.7 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 35 Oregon counties and 1445th 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 Multnomah 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 01:15 | September 15, 2020 15:30 | 8d 14h | 53,768 | 941K |
| 2 | July 21, 2020 07:00 | July 25, 2020 00:00 | 3d 17h | 34,234 | 73K |
| 3 | September 17, 2020 23:00 | September 24, 2020 21:30 | 6d 22h | 11,913 | 14K |
| 4 | November 14, 2020 11:45 | November 15, 2020 22:30 | 1d 10h | 10,462 | 62K |
| 5 | June 26, 2020 01:00 | June 26, 2020 17:30 | 16h 30m | 6,874 | 27K |
| 6 | November 12, 2020 17:15 | November 14, 2020 06:15 | 1d 13h | 5,713 | 29K |
| 7 | July 6, 2020 11:45 | July 7, 2020 20:45 | 1d 9h | 5,612 | 13K |
| 8 | April 4, 2020 09:30 | April 5, 2020 04:30 | 19h | 5,079 | 13K |
| 9 | October 7, 2020 11:00 | October 13, 2020 04:45 | 5d 17h | 4,981 | 68K |
| 10 | April 27, 2020 06:30 | April 27, 2020 22:00 | 15h 30m | 4,533 | 1,413 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 178 reached 100+ customers, 64 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Multnomah 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 |
| Columbia River Peoples Ut Dist | 2020 | 1.6 hrs | 0.70 | 66 min | 0.58 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Cascade Locks - (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 ÷ 388,772 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. Multnomah County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Multnomah 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/multnomah-county