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2024 Benton County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Benton County, OR went without power for an average of 6.8 hours, a total of 330K customer-hours (Oregon average 11.8 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 35 Oregon counties and 1286th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with OR, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Oregon customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 13, 2024 18:15 | January 20, 2024 17:45 | 6d 23h | 18,540 | 234K |
| 2 | May 11, 2024 20:00 | May 12, 2024 09:15 | 13h 15m | 4,477 | 5,644 |
| 3 | August 22, 2024 16:30 | August 22, 2024 20:45 | 4h 15m | 3,578 | 914 |
| 4 | February 19, 2024 18:30 | February 20, 2024 03:45 | 9h 15m | 2,218 | 1,700 |
| 5 | October 31, 2024 00:30 | October 31, 2024 06:45 | 6h 15m | 2,203 | 1,161 |
| 6 | July 21, 2024 11:45 | July 22, 2024 04:30 | 16h 45m | 1,184 | 2,527 |
| 7 | January 9, 2024 06:15 | January 10, 2024 19:15 | 1d 13h | 1,158 | 12K |
| 8 | August 10, 2024 15:30 | August 11, 2024 10:30 | 19h | 1,056 | 869 |
| 9 | July 28, 2024 21:30 | July 28, 2024 22:45 | 1h 15m | 1,054 | 1,318 |
| 10 | August 8, 2024 09:15 | August 8, 2024 11:15 | 2h | 1,054 | 2,108 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 67 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 4.6 hrs | 1.67 | 2.0 hrs | 1.11 |
| Consumers Power, Inc | 2024 | 17.5 hrs | 3.50 | 5.9 hrs | 2.03 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/oregon/benton-county