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

Power outage history

Lincoln County Oregon

15hours

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

3rd most of 32 in Oregon 2.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Sep 8, 2020 52% of customers out · 90% back in 3.4 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 15h / yr State average 7.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.2days Jan 13, 2024, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 8% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 35 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 31,577 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 Lincoln'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 35 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Lincoln, hours without power per customer

LincolnUS median countyOregon average
0 10 20 30 40 0.7 ’17 1.4 ’18 1.7 ’19 35 ’20 10 ’21 12 ’22 11 ’23 28 ’24 20 ’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
Sep 7, 2020 No storm report 16,512 52% 4.0 d 3.4 d 855k
Jan 13, 2024 No storm report 18,350 58% 5.2 d 2.5 h 665k
Dec 16, 2025 No storm report 17,385 55% 2.8 d 20 h 333k
Feb 22, 2023 No storm report 14,843 47% 2.8 d 36 h 195k
Feb 24, 2025 Windstorm 20,991 66% 23 h 5.2 h 124k
Jan 2, 2022 No storm report 10,921 35% 39 h 9.5 h 78k
Jan 12, 2021 Flooding 6,833 22% 2.6 d 4.0 h 61k
Dec 6, 2025 No storm report 5,271 17% 13 h 13 h 61k
Dec 26, 2022 No storm report 3,800 12% 2.7 d 1.8 h 60k
Sep 14, 2020 No storm report 2,602 8% 46 h 28 h 54k
Sep 9, 2022 No storm report 1,789 6% 25 h 9.5 h 42k
Dec 25, 2024 Windstorm 4,558 14% 20 h 9.8 h 38k

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 +10h 90% by +18h

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 Lincoln from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 92%
  • Windstorm 5.6%
  • Flooding 2.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Lincoln

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 Lincoln People's Ut Dt Political Subdivision 516 – 1.92 11.4 36k
Consumers Power, Inc Cooperative 739 156 2.56 13.9 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.

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 31,577 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 →