Power outage history
Coos County Oregon
5.4hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
17th most of 32 in Oregon 18% 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 Coos's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 12 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Coos, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 2022 | Windstorm | 14,226 | 35% | 2.2 d | 31 h | 240k |
| Dec 26, 2022 | Windstorm | 7,392 | 18% | 45 h | 33 h | 124k |
| Dec 25, 2024 | Windstorm | 6,451 | 16% | 23 h | 16 h | 67k |
| Dec 14, 2018 | Windstorm | 7,323 | 18% | 22 h | 19 h | 67k |
| Oct 5, 2024 | No storm report | 14,457 | 36% | 13 h | 48 min | 63k |
| Jan 12, 2021 | Windstorm | 6,821 | 17% | 16 h | 11 h | 50k |
| Oct 14, 2024 | No storm report | 5,598 | 14% | 7.2 h | 4.8 h | 37k |
| Dec 18, 2018 | No storm report | 4,608 | 11% | 12 h | 10 h | 33k |
| Dec 17, 2025 | No storm report | 4,058 | 10% | 14 h | 12 h | 29k |
| May 24, 2019 | No storm report | 5,333 | 13% | 6.0 h | 5.2 h | 27k |
| Nov 17, 2020 | Windstorm | 3,112 | 8% | 13 h | 6.0 h | 24k |
| Feb 24, 2025 | Windstorm | 2,039 | 5% | 21 h | 15 h | 23k |
| Aug 25, 2023 | Wildfire | 7,999 | 20% | 2.5 h | 2.2 h | 20k |
| Sep 30, 2023 | No storm report | 2,430 | 6% | 8.0 h | 9.0 h | 19k |
| Sep 29, 2023 | No storm report | 2,428 | 6% | 8.0 h | 8.0 h | 19k |
| Oct 8, 2024 | No storm report | 2,443 | 6% | 7.5 h | 7.5 h | 18k |
| Mar 16, 2025 | Flooding | 5,950 | 15% | 3.8 h | 3.8 h | 15k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Winter storm | 1,714 | 4% | 11 h | – | 14k |
| Nov 13, 2020 | Windstorm | 2,480 | 6% | 12 h | 8.8 h | 14k |
| Nov 13, 2024 | Windstorm | 2,468 | 6% | 13 h | 30 min | 13k |
| Nov 20, 2024 | Windstorm | 1,046 | 3% | 13 h | – | 11k |
| Nov 19, 2024 | Windstorm | 1,643 | 4% | 12 h | – | 10k |
| May 7, 2019 | No storm report | 5,074 | 12% | 2.2 h | 1.8 h | 10k |
| Jun 25, 2019 | No storm report | 1,672 | 4% | 6.5 h | – | 10k |
| Jun 29, 2021 | No storm report | 3,334 | 8% | 5.8 h | 4.8 h | 10.0k |
| Dec 18, 2025 | No storm report | 1,046 | 3% | 15 h | – | 9.5k |
| Nov 13, 2017 | No storm report | 3,241 | 8% | 7.2 h | 5.2 h | 9.3k |
| Feb 23, 2023 | Winter storm | 2,527 | 6% | 10 h | 6.5 h | 8.9k |
| Feb 19, 2018 | Winter storm | 3,485 | 9% | 4.8 h | 3.2 h | 8.6k |
| Jun 29, 2024 | No storm report | 1,807 | 4% | 4.8 h | – | 8.6k |
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 Coos from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Windstorm 51%
- No storm on record 40%
- Winter storm 3.4%
- Wildfire 2.8%
- Flooding 2.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Coos
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 |
| Douglas Electric Coop | OR | – | – | – | 10.3 | 123k |
| City of Bandon | OR | – | – | – | 8.7 | 37k |
| Central Lincoln People's Ut Dt | Political Subdivision | 516 | – | 1.92 | 11.4 | 36k |
| Coos-Curry Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 188 | 77 | 1.14 | 14.0 | 16k |
| 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 40,670 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 →