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2022 Columbia County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Columbia County, OR went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 3,954 customer-hours (Oregon average 7.0 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 35 Oregon counties and 2913th 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 Columbia 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 14:30 | December 29, 2022 04:45 | 1d 14h | 74 | 1,889 |
| 2 | April 11, 2022 09:30 | April 13, 2022 10:00 | 2d | 57 | 765 |
| 3 | December 23, 2022 20:45 | December 23, 2022 23:30 | 2h 45m | 53 | 145 |
| 4 | December 24, 2022 13:15 | December 24, 2022 17:30 | 4h 15m | 52 | 211 |
| 5 | May 10, 2022 18:00 | May 10, 2022 22:00 | 4h | 32 | 120 |
| 6 | July 26, 2022 11:00 | July 26, 2022 19:45 | 8h 45m | 32 | 257 |
| 7 | August 12, 2022 10:45 | August 12, 2022 11:00 | 15m | 32 | 8 |
| 8 | April 4, 2022 22:30 | April 5, 2022 14:15 | 15h 45m | 24 | 234 |
| 9 | December 24, 2022 23:30 | December 26, 2022 09:00 | 1d 9h | 8 | 217 |
| 10 | December 2, 2022 19:30 | December 2, 2022 22:45 | 3h 15m | 5 | 16 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 0 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Columbia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portland General Electric Co | 2022 | 5.8 hrs | 1.11 | 1.9 hrs | 0.64 |
| Clatskanie Peoples Util Dist | 2022 | 14.1 hrs | 2.22 | 2.0 hrs | 1.04 |
| Columbia River Peoples Ut Dist | 2022 | 5.9 hrs | 1.30 | 81 min | 0.87 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| West Oregon 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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 28,312 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. Columbia County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia 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/columbia-county