Jackson County, Oregon Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Jackson County, Oregon had 16 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.93 times the US outage time per person and 0.83 times the Oregon rate. It ranks 14 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

5 of 7years with a major outage

229 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Aughardest months

September and August made up 59% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 8, 2020, reached 23,628 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 229.0 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	45,149	27	1
2018	111,396	63	0
2019	255,407	110	3
2020	2,150,685	96	5
2021	200,590	92	0
2022	331,867	115	2
2023	422,179	121	5

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Sep 8, 2020	229.0	23,628	1,713,412
Jan 16, 2020	85.8	6,297	183,284
Mar 26, 2023	26.2	11,038	88,315
Feb 26, 2019	35.2	4,063	55,175
Jun 28, 2021	2.0	30,096	46,290

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.