Power Out Map
– 0% of Josephine out 0 customers out in Oregon

Power outage history

Josephine County Oregon

7.6hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

11th most of 32 in Oregon 1.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Jan 16, 2020 22% of customers out · 90% back in 3.0 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 7.6h / yr State average 7.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 1hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.0days Jan 16, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 53% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 12 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 48,987 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

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 Josephine's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2020 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.

Josephine, hours without power per customer

JosephineUS median countyOregon average
0 5 10 15 0.5 ’17 3.6 ’18 3.5 ’19 12 ’20 3.8 ’21 10 ’22 7.8 ’23 9.5 ’24 11 ’25 OR 7.9 US 6.6

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 16, 2020 Winter storm 10,816 22% 4.0 d 3.0 d 397k
Dec 27, 2022 Windstorm 12,394 25% 2.8 d 2.3 d 274k
Nov 23, 2018 No storm report 16,490 34% 5.0 h 12 min 50k
Mar 28, 2023 Winter storm 12,483 25% 14 h 6.0 h 42k
Mar 12, 2022 No storm report 10,248 21% 17 h 3.0 h 37k
Feb 26, 2019 No storm report 2,229 5% 26 h – 37k
Jun 11, 2025 No storm report 2,687 5% 19 h 8.2 h 36k
Mar 3, 2024 Winter storm 4,463 9% 12 h 7.5 h 33k
Jul 18, 2019 No storm report 3,774 8% 12 h 12 h 31k
Jul 7, 2025 No storm report 5,133 10% 11 h 1.0 h 27k
Apr 28, 2025 No storm report 3,280 7% 8.0 h 12 min 26k
Sep 8, 2020 Wildfire 2,408 5% 17 h – 24k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +6h 90% by +10h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Josephine from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 47%
  • Winter storm 27%
  • Wildfire 12%
  • Windstorm 12%
  • Heat 1.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Josephine

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

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

Across Oregon

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Oregon counties →

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 48,987 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 →