Polk County, Oregon Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Polk County, Oregon had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.00 times the US outage time per person and 0.89 times the Oregon rate. It ranks 13 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

138 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Dechardest months

February and December made up 70% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 12, 2021, reached 23,943 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 137.5 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
2015	31,742	20	0
2016	43,932	14	2
2017	39,508	18	1
2018	68,758	20	1
2019	52,946	22	1
2020	175,062	36	5
2021	1,269,709	44	4
2022	214,322	35	2
2023	97,995	44	0

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
Feb 12, 2021	137.5	23,943	1,123,491
Dec 27, 2022	63.0	2,329	68,234
Feb 18, 2021	62.8	1,951	60,006
Jun 16, 2020	8.5	10,496	51,684
Jun 10, 2022	4.5	15,895	49,527

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.