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2023 Benton County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Benton County, OR went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 123K customer-hours (Oregon average 3.0 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 35 Oregon counties and 2107th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with OR, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Oregon customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2023
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 21, 2023 13:45 | February 21, 2023 22:45 | 9h | 4,435 | 6,181 |
| 2 | September 3, 2023 00:30 | September 3, 2023 04:45 | 4h 15m | 3,889 | 11K |
| 3 | December 6, 2023 19:00 | December 6, 2023 22:30 | 3h 30m | 3,256 | 4,482 |
| 4 | July 21, 2023 00:45 | July 21, 2023 07:00 | 6h 15m | 2,224 | 4,976 |
| 5 | December 16, 2023 15:15 | December 16, 2023 16:00 | 45m | 2,212 | 555 |
| 6 | November 28, 2023 07:30 | November 28, 2023 13:00 | 5h 30m | 2,208 | 738 |
| 7 | June 12, 2023 17:15 | June 12, 2023 21:45 | 4h 30m | 2,105 | 1,875 |
| 8 | August 31, 2023 16:15 | September 1, 2023 10:00 | 17h 45m | 1,757 | 12K |
| 9 | April 24, 2023 04:30 | April 24, 2023 09:45 | 5h 15m | 1,130 | 3,649 |
| 10 | April 7, 2023 20:15 | April 8, 2023 01:15 | 5h | 1,123 | 5,382 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 71 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 8.2 hrs | 1.42 | 1.9 hrs | 0.99 |
| Consumers Power, Inc | 2023 | 9.5 hrs | 1.95 | 4.9 hrs | 1.77 |
| 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 n/a of Oregon's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/oregon/benton-county