Power outage history
Baker County Oregon
4.8hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
20th most of 32 in Oregon 26% below the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Baker's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 10 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Baker, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,731 | 37% | 32 h | 21 h | 31k |
| Nov 26, 2023 | No storm report | 8,864 | 88% | 4.2 h | 1.2 h | 27k |
| Jul 7, 2021 | No storm report | 8,813 | 87% | 2.5 h | 1.2 h | 18k |
| Aug 21, 2024 | No storm report | 1,013 | 10% | 9.5 h | 9.5 h | 9.6k |
| Aug 14, 2025 | No storm report | 1,350 | 13% | 7.0 h | 7.0 h | 9.4k |
| Apr 19, 2024 | No storm report | 8,603 | 85% | 1.2 h | 2.2 h | 8.9k |
| Apr 7, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 1,795 | 18% | 9.0 h | 1.5 h | 6.5k |
| Feb 20, 2021 | No storm report | 1,053 | 10% | 9.5 h | 6.0 h | 6.5k |
| May 20, 2019 | No storm report | 1,312 | 13% | 5.0 h | 5.0 h | 6.4k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | No storm report | 898 | 9% | 7.8 h | 7.8 h | 6.0k |
| Oct 29, 2025 | No storm report | 916 | 9% | 6.0 h | 9.2 h | 5.4k |
| Jul 23, 2024 | No storm report | 549 | 5% | 12 h | 4.5 h | 5.0k |
| Feb 5, 2025 | No storm report | 1,052 | 10% | 8.8 h | 3.8 h | 4.9k |
| Oct 29, 2019 | No storm report | 2,016 | 20% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 4.5k |
| May 30, 2020 | No storm report | 613 | 6% | 13 h | 10 h | 4.5k |
| Oct 22, 2024 | No storm report | 6,877 | 68% | 13 h | 12 min | 4.3k |
| Dec 1, 2018 | No storm report | 380 | 4% | 10 h | – | 3.9k |
| Aug 17, 2024 | No storm report | 324 | 3% | 17 h | – | 3.8k |
| Feb 27, 2020 | No storm report | 5,460 | 54% | 1.0 h | – | 3.7k |
| Sep 7, 2020 | No storm report | 520 | 5% | 7.2 h | 11 h | 3.7k |
| May 24, 2021 | No storm report | 870 | 9% | 4.2 h | 15 h | 3.7k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | No storm report | 322 | 3% | 16 h | – | 3.7k |
| Nov 5, 2023 | No storm report | 547 | 5% | 6.8 h | 10 h | 3.5k |
| Oct 25, 2025 | No storm report | 389 | 4% | 9.0 h | – | 3.4k |
| Dec 17, 2025 | No storm report | 1,081 | 11% | 7.5 h | 5.0 h | 3.3k |
| Aug 3, 2023 | No storm report | 898 | 9% | 4.0 h | 2.5 h | 3.2k |
| Nov 4, 2023 | No storm report | 726 | 7% | 4.2 h | 4.2 h | 3.1k |
| Nov 13, 2020 | Winter storm | 1,120 | 11% | 9.8 h | 2.2 h | 2.9k |
| Mar 29, 2021 | Windstorm | 1,042 | 10% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 2.9k |
| May 10, 2024 | No storm report | 466 | 5% | 6.0 h | – | 2.8k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Baker from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 84%
- Thunderstorms 13%
- Winter storm 1.5%
- Windstorm 1.2%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Baker
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Oregon territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon Trail El Cons Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 157 | 88 | 1.62 | 11.0 | 26k |
| Idaho Power Co | Investor Owned | 273 | 270 | 1.47 | 11.9 | 14k |
| Bonneville Power Administration | Federal | – | – | – | – | – |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 10,098 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →