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2024 Multnomah County, OR Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Multnomah County, OR went without power for an average of 22.3 hours, a total of 8.7M customer-hours (Oregon average 11.8 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 35 Oregon counties and 451st 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 Multnomah 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 11, 2024 12:00 | February 3, 2024 09:30 | 22d 21h | 123,419 | 7.5M |
| 2 | July 21, 2024 10:45 | July 24, 2024 05:00 | 2d 18h | 36,478 | 52K |
| 3 | July 16, 2024 09:30 | July 18, 2024 06:30 | 1d 21h | 30,208 | 30K |
| 4 | May 22, 2024 07:15 | May 24, 2024 00:15 | 1d 17h | 29,800 | 13K |
| 5 | August 31, 2024 17:30 | September 5, 2024 10:00 | 4d 16h | 22,677 | 51K |
| 6 | July 18, 2024 07:30 | July 20, 2024 22:45 | 2d 15h | 12,266 | 29K |
| 7 | August 28, 2024 02:00 | August 31, 2024 01:00 | 2d 23h | 11,004 | 17K |
| 8 | January 8, 2024 14:30 | January 11, 2024 10:45 | 2d 20h | 9,731 | 84K |
| 9 | October 13, 2024 12:30 | October 14, 2024 05:45 | 17h 15m | 8,767 | 12K |
| 10 | December 26, 2024 07:30 | December 28, 2024 22:00 | 2d 14h | 8,476 | 44K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 179 reached 100+ customers, 64 reached 1,000+ customers, 7 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 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 |
| Portland General Electric Co | 2024 | 12.9 hrs | 1.27 | 2.2 hrs | 0.79 |
| Columbia River Peoples Ut Dist | 2024 | 1.5 hrs | 0.65 | 55 min | 0.50 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/multnomah-county