Power outage history
Linn County Oregon
6.8hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
13th most of 32 in Oregon close to 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 Linn's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2021 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.
Linn, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 2021 | No storm report | 10,502 | 15% | 5.2 d | 4.5 d | 423k |
| Jan 13, 2024 | No storm report | 8,418 | 12% | 6.0 d | 2.3 d | 406k |
| Sep 7, 2020 | No storm report | 15,795 | 22% | 5.0 d | 26 h | 280k |
| Dec 17, 2025 | No storm report | 16,186 | 23% | 2.6 d | 17 h | 185k |
| Sep 9, 2022 | No storm report | 8,714 | 12% | 26 h | 6.2 h | 174k |
| Sep 18, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 6,613 | 9% | 39 h | 17 h | 95k |
| Jan 12, 2021 | No storm report | 10,777 | 15% | 27 h | 17 h | 91k |
| Dec 27, 2022 | No storm report | 5,565 | 8% | 35 h | 34 h | 87k |
| Oct 25, 2025 | No storm report | 6,205 | 9% | 18 h | 15 h | 62k |
| Feb 25, 2019 | No storm report | 4,857 | 7% | 30 h | 32 h | 58k |
| Jul 5, 2023 | No storm report | 7,720 | 11% | 4.5 h | 12 min | 35k |
| Dec 25, 2024 | Winter storm | 6,651 | 9% | 11 h | 8.5 h | 30k |
| Jan 2, 2022 | No storm report | 3,259 | 5% | 18 h | – | 27k |
| Feb 24, 2025 | No storm report | 2,663 | 4% | 17 h | – | 23k |
| Apr 11, 2021 | No storm report | 1,585 | 2% | 12 h | – | 19k |
| Aug 16, 2018 | No storm report | 1,998 | 3% | 9.2 h | – | 17k |
| Oct 27, 2024 | No storm report | 2,084 | 3% | 11 h | – | 15k |
| Sep 18, 2021 | No storm report | 15,599 | 22% | 4.5 h | 48 min | 14k |
| Jan 1, 2025 | No storm report | 11,165 | 16% | 1.5 h | 1.2 h | 14k |
| May 12, 2021 | No storm report | 1,991 | 3% | 11 h | – | 14k |
| Jun 3, 2020 | No storm report | 3,393 | 5% | 4.0 h | – | 14k |
| Aug 14, 2021 | No storm report | 1,539 | 2% | 12 h | – | 13k |
| Jul 13, 2025 | No storm report | 1,469 | 2% | 10 h | – | 13k |
| Nov 28, 2023 | No storm report | 3,740 | 5% | 3.5 h | 3.2 h | 13k |
| Jun 1, 2023 | No storm report | 2,471 | 4% | 6.5 h | – | 12k |
| Dec 24, 2023 | No storm report | 4,312 | 6% | 4.5 h | 30 min | 12k |
| Sep 14, 2018 | No storm report | 2,571 | 4% | 6.0 h | – | 12k |
| May 9, 2022 | No storm report | 5,545 | 8% | 6.0 h | 4.2 h | 12k |
| Nov 2, 2024 | No storm report | 2,031 | 3% | 5.8 h | – | 12k |
| Jul 10, 2020 | No storm report | 1,799 | 3% | 8.0 h | – | 12k |
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 Linn from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 95%
- Thunderstorms 3.5%
- Winter storm 1.1%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Linn
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 |
| Emerald People's Utility Dist | Political Subdivision | – | – | – | 11.5 | 20k |
| 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.
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 70,430 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 →