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2023 Polk County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Polk County, OR went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 133K customer-hours (Oregon average 3.0 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 35 Oregon counties and 1636th 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 Polk 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 | August 27, 2023 14:30 | August 31, 2023 00:30 | 3d 10h | 5,431 | 17K |
| 2 | December 17, 2023 00:45 | December 18, 2023 01:00 | 1d | 5,404 | 8,269 |
| 3 | January 19, 2023 07:45 | January 19, 2023 17:45 | 10h | 3,170 | 802 |
| 4 | December 19, 2023 01:45 | December 19, 2023 21:45 | 20h | 2,491 | 31K |
| 5 | May 7, 2023 12:30 | May 7, 2023 17:00 | 4h 30m | 2,403 | 5,344 |
| 6 | May 17, 2023 06:45 | May 17, 2023 13:45 | 7h | 2,256 | 2,546 |
| 7 | April 19, 2023 13:30 | April 19, 2023 15:15 | 1h 45m | 2,223 | 629 |
| 8 | April 19, 2023 18:15 | April 19, 2023 20:45 | 2h 30m | 2,223 | 572 |
| 9 | March 29, 2023 16:45 | March 29, 2023 22:00 | 5h 15m | 2,186 | 6,021 |
| 10 | July 3, 2023 20:30 | July 4, 2023 05:45 | 9h 15m | 1,019 | 3,947 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 47 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Polk 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 |
| Consumers Power, Inc | 2023 | 9.5 hrs | 1.95 | 4.9 hrs | 1.77 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Salem Electric - (OR) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Monmouth - (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 ÷ 31,803 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county