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2020 Union County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Union County, OR went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (Oregon average 8.7 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 35 Oregon counties and 1968th 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 Union 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 | May 30, 2020 23:15 | June 1, 2020 08:00 | 1d 8h | 4,961 | 11K |
| 2 | June 18, 2020 15:30 | June 18, 2020 16:45 | 1h 15m | 3,472 | 4,340 |
| 3 | June 2, 2020 20:45 | June 2, 2020 21:00 | 15m | 1,520 | 380 |
| 4 | June 13, 2020 09:00 | June 13, 2020 12:15 | 3h 15m | 1,351 | 4,054 |
| 5 | May 29, 2020 14:00 | May 29, 2020 18:00 | 4h | 995 | 1,352 |
| 6 | January 20, 2020 21:15 | January 20, 2020 22:00 | 45m | 873 | 437 |
| 7 | June 15, 2020 16:15 | June 15, 2020 16:30 | 15m | 779 | 195 |
| 8 | October 29, 2020 18:30 | October 29, 2020 19:00 | 30m | 467 | 155 |
| 9 | August 28, 2020 10:15 | August 28, 2020 14:15 | 4h | 305 | 1,220 |
| 10 | January 13, 2020 00:30 | January 13, 2020 20:45 | 20h 15m | 285 | 3,829 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 27 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Union 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umatilla Electric Coop Assn | 2020 | 13.1 hrs | 2.04 | 1.9 hrs | 0.88 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 15,625 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. Union County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county