Power outage history
Deschutes County Oregon
1.9hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
31st most of 32 in Oregon 72% 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 Deschutes'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 2.8 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Deschutes, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 2022 | No storm report | 5,607 | 4% | 43 h | 12 min | 93k |
| Mar 28, 2021 | Windstorm | 8,197 | 6% | 21 h | 19 h | 91k |
| Oct 17, 2020 | Wildfire | 2,494 | 2% | 22 h | – | 40k |
| May 30, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 4,737 | 3% | 17 h | – | 36k |
| Oct 12, 2023 | No storm report | 18,382 | 13% | 3.8 h | 3.5 h | 29k |
| Mar 7, 2025 | No storm report | 8,669 | 6% | 5.0 h | 2.8 h | 29k |
| Aug 2, 2024 | No storm report | 14,164 | 10% | 7.2 h | 7.0 h | 28k |
| Dec 11, 2022 | Winter storm | 3,485 | 2% | 12 h | – | 26k |
| Oct 25, 2025 | No storm report | 1,772 | 1% | 13 h | – | 23k |
| Jan 19, 2025 | No storm report | 3,088 | 2% | 7.0 h | – | 22k |
| Aug 3, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 11,431 | 8% | 4.2 h | 48 min | 18k |
| Jul 14, 2018 | No storm report | 9,923 | 7% | 3.0 h | 1.0 h | 18k |
| Aug 9, 2022 | Heat | 11,944 | 8% | 2.0 h | 1.5 h | 17k |
| Aug 6, 2024 | No storm report | 10,607 | 8% | 2.8 h | 2.2 h | 15k |
| Mar 28, 2023 | Winter storm | 3,362 | 2% | 4.5 h | – | 15k |
| Jun 3, 2025 | No storm report | 4,999 | 4% | 3.2 h | – | 15k |
| Jul 2, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 10,762 | 8% | 1.8 h | 48 min | 14k |
| Jun 25, 2024 | No storm report | 10,918 | 8% | 2.5 h | 30 min | 14k |
| Jul 30, 2023 | No storm report | 8,525 | 6% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 13k |
| Nov 13, 2020 | Winter storm | 2,370 | 2% | 6.0 h | – | 13k |
| Aug 14, 2022 | No storm report | 4,209 | 3% | 3.2 h | – | 12k |
| Jun 21, 2021 | No storm report | 2,185 | 2% | 5.5 h | – | 12k |
| Feb 23, 2020 | Windstorm | 2,567 | 2% | 5.0 h | – | 12k |
| Feb 28, 2019 | Winter storm | 1,789 | 1% | 6.2 h | – | 11k |
| May 21, 2025 | No storm report | 1,850 | 1% | 6.0 h | – | 11k |
| Aug 2, 2025 | No storm report | 4,684 | 3% | 3.2 h | – | 10k |
| Jan 13, 2024 | Winter storm | 2,438 | 2% | 4.2 h | – | 10k |
| Jul 29, 2021 | No storm report | 12,480 | 9% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 8.7k |
| Jul 6, 2024 | No storm report | 1,891 | 1% | 4.8 h | – | 8.5k |
| Oct 18, 2024 | No storm report | 5,604 | 4% | 1.5 h | 1.2 h | 8.4k |
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 Deschutes from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 65%
- Windstorm 11%
- Winter storm 8.5%
- Thunderstorms 7.6%
- Wildfire 5.9%
- Heat 2.0%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Deschutes
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 |
| Central Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 10.5 | 35k |
| Harney Electric Coop, Inc | OR | – | – | – | 8.2 | 19k |
| Midstate Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 212 | 212 | – | 11.8 | 19k |
| 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 141,071 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 →