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2021 Marion County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Marion County, OR went without power for an average of 118.3 hours, a total of 12.1M customer-hours (Oregon average 20.6 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 35 Oregon counties and 58th 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 Marion 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 | February 11, 2021 17:00 | February 27, 2021 09:15 | 15d 16h | 117,645 | 11.4M |
| 2 | January 13, 2021 00:15 | January 20, 2021 23:00 | 7d 22h | 11,731 | 248K |
| 3 | September 17, 2021 01:45 | September 24, 2021 06:15 | 7d 4h | 7,974 | 6,780 |
| 4 | June 15, 2021 15:45 | June 18, 2021 04:15 | 2d 12h | 7,745 | 15K |
| 5 | June 21, 2021 14:00 | June 21, 2021 23:00 | 9h | 7,058 | 8,099 |
| 6 | October 24, 2021 20:00 | October 25, 2021 23:00 | 1d 3h | 6,507 | 32K |
| 7 | November 17, 2021 23:15 | November 18, 2021 05:15 | 6h | 5,488 | 14K |
| 8 | July 29, 2021 14:15 | July 30, 2021 07:30 | 17h 15m | 4,800 | 13K |
| 9 | June 10, 2021 23:15 | June 14, 2021 03:00 | 3d 3h | 3,872 | 12K |
| 10 | June 27, 2021 23:00 | June 29, 2021 21:00 | 1d 22h | 3,566 | 8,130 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 124 reached 100+ customers, 32 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 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 |
| Portland General Electric Co | 2021 | 45.4 hrs | 1.67 | 2.0 hrs | 0.63 |
| Consumers Power, Inc | 2021 | 29.7 hrs | 3.44 | 6.2 hrs | 2.04 |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/marion-county