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2023 Deschutes County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Deschutes County, OR went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 180K customer-hours (Oregon average 3.0 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 35 Oregon counties and 2564th 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 Deschutes 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 | October 12, 2023 13:15 | October 12, 2023 22:15 | 9h | 18,382 | 29K |
| 2 | July 30, 2023 07:30 | July 30, 2023 19:30 | 12h | 8,525 | 19K |
| 3 | March 28, 2023 10:00 | March 28, 2023 19:30 | 9h 30m | 3,362 | 18K |
| 4 | August 15, 2023 15:00 | August 15, 2023 19:30 | 4h 30m | 2,555 | 4,233 |
| 5 | August 19, 2023 23:15 | August 20, 2023 06:15 | 7h | 1,893 | 6,272 |
| 6 | June 28, 2023 08:45 | June 28, 2023 14:30 | 5h 45m | 1,879 | 540 |
| 7 | March 2, 2023 18:15 | March 3, 2023 01:15 | 7h | 1,599 | 420 |
| 8 | December 7, 2023 16:30 | December 7, 2023 21:30 | 5h | 1,484 | 706 |
| 9 | May 2, 2023 06:30 | May 2, 2023 19:30 | 13h | 1,361 | 6,247 |
| 10 | August 30, 2023 23:15 | September 1, 2023 15:45 | 1d 16h | 1,171 | 3,745 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 69 reached 100+ customers, 13 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Deschutes 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 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Central Electric Coop Inc - (OR) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Harney Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midstate 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 ÷ 141,071 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. Deschutes County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Deschutes 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/deschutes-county