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2023 Multnomah County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Multnomah County, OR went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 991K customer-hours (Oregon average 3.0 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 35 Oregon counties and 2100th 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 Multnomah 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 15, 2023 22:15 | September 16, 2023 20:30 | 22h 15m | 11,190 | 37K |
| 2 | July 30, 2023 23:00 | August 4, 2023 01:45 | 4d 2h | 8,144 | 22K |
| 3 | December 29, 2023 01:45 | January 1, 2024 00:00 | 2d 22h | 7,822 | 48K |
| 4 | January 29, 2023 05:30 | January 30, 2023 07:15 | 1d 1h | 6,824 | 33K |
| 5 | March 7, 2023 10:15 | March 9, 2023 05:15 | 1d 19h | 6,348 | 12K |
| 6 | June 2, 2023 06:30 | June 2, 2023 22:00 | 15h 30m | 5,883 | 8,703 |
| 7 | January 4, 2023 11:45 | January 9, 2023 10:00 | 4d 22h | 5,634 | 41K |
| 8 | June 10, 2023 13:15 | June 10, 2023 22:45 | 9h 30m | 5,569 | 9,263 |
| 9 | February 22, 2023 10:15 | February 25, 2023 23:30 | 3d 13h | 5,563 | 87K |
| 10 | September 29, 2023 15:15 | September 29, 2023 22:15 | 7h | 5,113 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 201 reached 100+ customers, 55 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 Multnomah 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 |
| Portland General Electric Co | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | 0.65 | 1.8 hrs | 0.65 |
| Columbia River Peoples Ut Dist | 2023 | 2.1 hrs | 0.86 | 71 min | 0.66 |
| 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 n/a of Oregon's customers in 2023; 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, 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/multnomah-county