Power outage history
Clatsop County Oregon
13hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
5th most of 32 in Oregon 2.0× 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 Clatsop's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 27 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Clatsop, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 2025 | No storm report | 23,302 | 100% | 28 h | 17 h | 339k |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Windstorm | 17,575 | 75% | 32 h | 18 h | 271k |
| Dec 26, 2022 | No storm report | 16,760 | 72% | 44 h | 28 h | 232k |
| Feb 24, 2025 | Windstorm | 23,302 | 100% | 47 h | 3.5 h | 193k |
| Feb 12, 2021 | No storm report | 4,963 | 21% | 2.1 d | 34 h | 87k |
| Sep 7, 2020 | No storm report | 13,496 | 58% | 26 h | 15 h | 82k |
| Dec 25, 2024 | Windstorm | 4,109 | 18% | 21 h | 20 h | 68k |
| Jan 13, 2024 | No storm report | 12,866 | 55% | 13 h | 6.5 h | 63k |
| Mar 2, 2023 | No storm report | 4,324 | 19% | 12 h | 12 h | 52k |
| Dec 19, 2019 | No storm report | 9,768 | 42% | 36 h | 9.8 h | 49k |
| Jul 14, 2018 | No storm report | 4,157 | 18% | 8.2 h | 9.0 h | 34k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | No storm report | 4,746 | 20% | 13 h | 6.8 h | 34k |
| Aug 8, 2017 | No storm report | 15,324 | 66% | 2.8 h | 13 h | 34k |
| Jan 2, 2022 | No storm report | 12,336 | 53% | 8.5 h | 2.0 h | 28k |
| Feb 6, 2025 | No storm report | 2,322 | 10% | 16 h | 15 h | 27k |
| Apr 24, 2021 | No storm report | 3,450 | 15% | 6.8 h | 6.2 h | 23k |
| Dec 11, 2021 | No storm report | 4,906 | 21% | 9.5 h | 1.8 h | 20k |
| Nov 18, 2017 | No storm report | 4,091 | 18% | 4.8 h | 15 h | 19k |
| May 17, 2023 | No storm report | 4,353 | 19% | 4.5 h | 4.8 h | 19k |
| Dec 9, 2022 | No storm report | 1,504 | 6% | 15 h | 8.2 h | 19k |
| Nov 29, 2018 | No storm report | 2,793 | 12% | 6.0 h | 6.5 h | 17k |
| Nov 28, 2018 | No storm report | 2,793 | 12% | 6.2 h | 6.2 h | 17k |
| Nov 27, 2018 | No storm report | 2,793 | 12% | 6.0 h | 12 h | 17k |
| Oct 21, 2017 | No storm report | 15,452 | 66% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 15k |
| Nov 13, 2017 | No storm report | 18,533 | 80% | 16 h | 12 min | 13k |
| Jan 6, 2019 | No storm report | 1,058 | 5% | 20 h | – | 12k |
| Aug 11, 2018 | No storm report | 4,166 | 18% | 2.8 h | 4.5 h | 11k |
| Jul 26, 2023 | No storm report | 1,672 | 7% | 6.8 h | 6.8 h | 11k |
| Dec 3, 2023 | No storm report | 1,603 | 7% | 7.0 h | 4.5 h | 11k |
| Jun 7, 2022 | No storm report | 7,433 | 32% | 1.5 h | 1.2 h | 11k |
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 Clatsop from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 76%
- Windstorm 24%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Clatsop
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PacifiCorp | Investor Owned | 385 | 104 | 1.52 | 15.2 | 553k |
| West Oregon Electric Coop Inc | OR | – | – | – | – | 48k |
| Tillamook Peoples Utility Dist | Political Subdivision | – | – | – | 12.7 | 20k |
| Clatskanie Peoples Util Dist | Political Subdivision | 397 | 197 | 1.10 | 7.6 | 3.8k |
| 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.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
- Tillamook 15 h
- Clatsop (this county) 13 h
- Washington 4.0 h
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 23,302 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 →