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2022 Multnomah County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Multnomah County, OR went without power for an average of 7.7 hours, a total of 3.0M customer-hours (Oregon average 7.0 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 35 Oregon counties and 942nd 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 Multnomah 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 | April 10, 2022 22:45 | April 15, 2022 15:15 | 4d 16h | 67,481 | 713K |
| 2 | December 27, 2022 02:00 | January 1, 2023 00:00 | 4d 22h | 31,521 | 631K |
| 3 | November 2, 2022 04:15 | November 6, 2022 05:15 | 4d 1h | 22,621 | 161K |
| 4 | December 20, 2022 06:30 | December 27, 2022 01:00 | 6d 18h | 18,191 | 236K |
| 5 | January 4, 2022 11:45 | January 9, 2022 00:00 | 4d 12h | 12,358 | 34K |
| 6 | November 6, 2022 07:15 | November 9, 2022 05:45 | 2d 22h | 11,499 | 100K |
| 7 | July 4, 2022 17:30 | July 4, 2022 21:30 | 4h | 10,660 | 15K |
| 8 | November 30, 2022 04:30 | December 1, 2022 13:45 | 1d 9h | 9,385 | 61K |
| 9 | April 4, 2022 06:15 | April 7, 2022 15:00 | 3d 8h | 8,709 | 51K |
| 10 | June 25, 2022 17:30 | June 29, 2022 02:45 | 3d 9h | 8,422 | 63K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 178 reached 100+ customers, 51 reached 1,000+ customers, 7 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 Multnomah 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 |
| Portland General Electric Co | 2022 | 5.8 hrs | 1.11 | 1.9 hrs | 0.64 |
| Columbia River Peoples Ut Dist | 2022 | 5.9 hrs | 1.30 | 81 min | 0.87 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Cascade Locks - (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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 388,772 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. Multnomah County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Multnomah 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/multnomah-county