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2023 Columbia County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Columbia County, OR went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 458 customer-hours (Oregon average 3.0 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 35 Oregon counties and 2951st 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 Columbia 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 | September 18, 2023 18:30 | September 18, 2023 18:45 | 15m | 55 | 14 |
| 2 | August 1, 2023 15:30 | August 1, 2023 21:00 | 5h 30m | 52 | 286 |
| 3 | October 2, 2023 16:45 | October 2, 2023 23:00 | 6h 15m | 7 | 33 |
| 4 | May 7, 2023 18:00 | May 7, 2023 20:30 | 2h 30m | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | July 25, 2023 05:00 | July 25, 2023 05:45 | 45m | 5 | 4 |
| 6 | December 3, 2023 12:30 | December 3, 2023 22:30 | 10h | 4 | 40 |
| 7 | April 10, 2023 00:15 | April 10, 2023 06:00 | 5h 45m | 3 | 17 |
| 8 | May 14, 2023 23:00 | May 15, 2023 03:00 | 4h | 3 | 12 |
| 9 | December 5, 2023 19:15 | December 5, 2023 21:45 | 2h 30m | 3 | 7 |
| 10 | February 2, 2023 00:45 | February 2, 2023 05:15 | 4h 30m | 2 | 9 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portland General Electric Co | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | 0.65 | 1.8 hrs | 0.65 |
| Clatskanie Peoples Util Dist | 2023 | 1.9 hrs | 1.16 | 1.9 hrs | 1.16 |
| Columbia River Peoples Ut Dist | 2023 | 2.1 hrs | 0.86 | 71 min | 0.66 |
| 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 n/a of Oregon's customers in 2023; 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, 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/columbia-county