– 0% of Multnomah out 0 customers out in Oregon

Power outage history

Multnomah County Oregon

8.3hours

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

8th most of 32 in Oregon 1.3× the national median

Worst outage on record Jan 13, 2024 32% of customers out · 90% back in 3.9 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 8.3h / yr State average 7.9 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 0.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 37hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 7.9days Feb 12, 2021, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 82% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2024 22 hours without power, average customer

Electricity customers 388,772 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 Multnomah'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

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 22 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Multnomah, hours without power per customer

MultnomahUS median countyOregon average

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 13, 2024	Winter storm	123,419	32%	7.7 d	3.9 d	7.4M
Feb 12, 2021	Winter storm	125,115	32%	7.9 d	3.7 d	6.2M
Sep 7, 2020	No storm report	53,768	14%	45 h	37 h	814k
Apr 11, 2022	No storm report	67,481	17%	37 h	25 h	681k
Dec 27, 2022	Windstorm	31,521	8%	37 h	32 h	561k
Dec 9, 2016	Ice storm	28,599	7%	33 h	28 h	446k
Jan 12, 2021	Flooding	40,015	10%	20 h	17 h	310k
Dec 17, 2025	No storm report	17,652	5%	16 h	10 h	191k
Apr 7, 2017	Windstorm	17,619	5%	17 h	24 h	179k
Sep 1, 2025	No storm report	16,168	4%	16 h	14 h	172k
Jan 10, 2017	Winter storm	12,432	3%	25 h	28 h	158k
Mar 15, 2015	Thunderstorms	20,515	5%	13 h	13 h	157k
Aug 29, 2015	No storm report	18,797	5%	9.2 h	13 h	116k
Feb 24, 2025	Windstorm	18,495	5%	9.2 h	13 h	99k
Nov 7, 2022	No storm report	11,499	3%	12 h	11 h	88k
Oct 15, 2016	Thunderstorms	21,015	5%	9.0 h	8.8 h	86k
Dec 22, 2022	Winter storm	18,191	5%	11 h	18 h	83k
Sep 18, 2021	No storm report	8,812	2%	10 h	16 h	80k
Nov 4, 2022	Windstorm	22,621	6%	5.0 h	6.0 h	78k
Dec 9, 2015	Thunderstorms	16,409	4%	6.8 h	5.0 h	70k
Dec 22, 2022	Windstorm	9,311	2%	7.0 h	16 h	55k
Nov 17, 2015	Windstorm	7,724	2%	9.2 h	13 h	53k
Aug 27, 2017	No storm report	5,372	1%	9.5 h	4.8 h	51k
Nov 30, 2022	No storm report	9,385	2%	8.2 h	6.0 h	49k
Jun 28, 2021	Heat	11,747	3%	5.2 h	11 h	44k
Jan 3, 2016	Winter storm	10,184	3%	7.5 h	4.5 h	44k
Dec 1, 2015	Ice storm	8,447	2%	7.2 h	6.2 h	43k
Feb 23, 2023	Winter storm	5,563	1%	12 h	9.2 h	42k
Dec 11, 2021	No storm report	12,754	3%	7.2 h	10 h	40k
Mar 16, 2019	No storm report	8,015	2%	5.5 h	4.8 h	37k

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

Winter storm 75%
No storm on record 18%
Windstorm 4.5%
Flooding 1.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Multnomah

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
Portland General Electric Co	Investor Owned	273	103	0.89	18.8	840k
PacifiCorp	Investor Owned	385	104	1.52	15.2	553k
Columbia River Peoples Ut Dist	Political Subdivision	170	37	0.58	9.8	16k
City of Cascade Locks	OR	–	–	–	–	9.9k
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

Clackamas 18 h
Multnomah (this county) 8.3 h
Washington 4.0 h
Hood River 3.4 h
Clark, WA 2.0 h
Skamania, WA 0.5 h

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 388,772 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 →