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2020 Polk County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Polk County, OR went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 206K customer-hours (Oregon average 8.7 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 35 Oregon counties and 1165th 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 Polk 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 | June 16, 2020 00:00 | June 16, 2020 17:15 | 17h 15m | 10,496 | 52K |
| 2 | June 23, 2020 12:30 | June 24, 2020 00:45 | 12h 15m | 3,008 | 10K |
| 3 | September 8, 2020 02:15 | September 11, 2020 01:00 | 2d 22h | 2,819 | 59K |
| 4 | December 13, 2020 18:30 | December 14, 2020 16:15 | 21h 45m | 1,988 | 10K |
| 5 | August 14, 2020 17:45 | August 15, 2020 02:15 | 8h 30m | 1,846 | 11K |
| 6 | November 17, 2020 14:00 | November 18, 2020 00:00 | 10h | 1,262 | 3,550 |
| 7 | September 13, 2020 21:45 | September 14, 2020 03:15 | 5h 30m | 1,090 | 332 |
| 8 | August 3, 2020 01:30 | August 3, 2020 10:15 | 8h 45m | 1,006 | 3,973 |
| 9 | September 12, 2020 10:15 | September 13, 2020 04:30 | 18h 15m | 760 | 4,077 |
| 10 | September 25, 2020 15:00 | September 26, 2020 16:15 | 1d 1h | 747 | 3,338 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 45 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Polk 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) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Monmouth - (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 ÷ 31,803 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county