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2022 Benton County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Benton County, OR went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 239K customer-hours (Oregon average 7.0 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 35 Oregon counties and 1432nd of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with OR, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Oregon customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 27, 2022 01:30 | December 31, 2022 02:45 | 4d 1h | 8,096 | 86K |
| 2 | November 26, 2022 16:45 | November 27, 2022 04:45 | 12h | 7,213 | 40K |
| 3 | April 4, 2022 07:00 | April 4, 2022 11:30 | 4h 30m | 4,274 | 19K |
| 4 | July 2, 2022 17:00 | July 3, 2022 00:30 | 7h 30m | 3,539 | 2,024 |
| 5 | July 26, 2022 17:15 | July 27, 2022 01:00 | 7h 45m | 1,711 | 8,186 |
| 6 | November 6, 2022 22:15 | November 7, 2022 18:45 | 20h 30m | 1,682 | 5,607 |
| 7 | July 10, 2022 20:30 | July 11, 2022 04:15 | 7h 45m | 1,569 | 2,535 |
| 8 | January 7, 2022 11:00 | January 8, 2022 03:45 | 16h 45m | 1,431 | 4,542 |
| 9 | August 3, 2022 11:30 | August 3, 2022 12:00 | 30m | 1,311 | 347 |
| 10 | January 15, 2022 07:00 | January 15, 2022 10:00 | 3h | 1,150 | 940 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 63 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 5.2 hrs | 1.58 | 1.8 hrs | 1.11 |
| Consumers Power, Inc | 2022 | 16.9 hrs | 3.30 | 7.8 hrs | 2.67 |
| Emerald People's Utility Dist | 2013 | 1.6 hrs | 0.70 | 1.6 hrs | 0.70 |
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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 48,456 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. Benton County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, OR annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/oregon/benton-county