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2021 Deschutes County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Deschutes County, OR went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 260K customer-hours (Oregon average 20.6 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 35 Oregon counties and 2300th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with OR, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Oregon customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Deschutes County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 29, 2021 22:15 | July 30, 2021 09:30 | 11h 15m | 12,480 | 9,383 |
| 2 | March 28, 2021 20:45 | March 30, 2021 09:00 | 1d 12h | 8,197 | 92K |
| 3 | August 20, 2021 08:15 | August 20, 2021 13:45 | 5h 30m | 4,121 | 4,969 |
| 4 | August 26, 2021 21:15 | August 26, 2021 23:00 | 1h 45m | 4,111 | 2,422 |
| 5 | July 5, 2021 11:30 | July 5, 2021 15:00 | 3h 30m | 2,938 | 7,820 |
| 6 | November 24, 2021 21:15 | November 24, 2021 21:30 | 15m | 2,722 | 681 |
| 7 | June 22, 2021 01:45 | June 22, 2021 15:15 | 13h 30m | 2,185 | 12K |
| 8 | June 7, 2021 07:15 | June 7, 2021 07:45 | 30m | 2,166 | 1,083 |
| 9 | May 16, 2021 01:30 | May 16, 2021 05:15 | 3h 45m | 2,131 | 537 |
| 10 | October 29, 2021 15:30 | October 30, 2021 01:00 | 9h 30m | 2,096 | 2,634 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 86 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Deschutes County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 4.3 hrs | 1.86 | 2.0 hrs | 1.19 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Central Electric Coop Inc - (OR) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Harney Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midstate 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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 141,071 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. Deschutes County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Deschutes County, OR annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/oregon/deschutes-county