Power outages in Oregon, by utility
Across 12 Oregon utilities that reported to the federal government, the median customer went without power for 3.8 hours in 2025 — that is 1.3× the national median. Oregon ranks #14 of 41 states for outage time, worst first.
- Median utility
- 3.8 hrs
- typical customer
- Worst utility
- 12.3 hrs
- Consumers Power, Inc
- Best utility
- 0.5 hrs
- Northern Wasco County PUD - (OR)
- Utilities reporting
- 12
- of 752 nationwide
Every reporting Oregon utility, worst outage time first
| # | Utility | Outage time/yr | Outages/yr | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Consumers Power, IncCooperative | 12.3 hrs739 min | 2.6 | 4.2× worse |
| 2 | Central Lincoln People's Ut DtPolitical Subdivision | 8.6 hrs516 min | 1.9 | 2.9× worse |
| 3 | Clatskanie Peoples Util DistPolitical Subdivision | 6.6 hrs397 min | 1.1 | 2.2× worse |
| 4 | PacifiCorpInvestor Owned | 6.4 hrs385 min | 1.5 | 2.2× worse |
| 5 | Portland General Electric CoInvestor Owned | 4.6 hrs273 min | 0.9 | 1.5× worse |
| 6 | Idaho Power CoInvestor Owned | 4.5 hrs273 min | 1.5 | 1.5× worse |
| 7 | Coos-Curry Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 3.1 hrs188 min | 1.1 | 1.1× worse |
| 8 | Columbia River Peoples Ut DistPolitical Subdivision | 2.8 hrs170 min | 0.6 | 1.0× better |
| 9 | Umatilla Electric Coop AssnCooperative | 2.6 hrs155 min | 1.0 | 1.1× better |
| 10 | City of Eugene - (OR)Municipal | 0.8 hrs49 min | 0.3 | 3.6× better |
| 11 | City of Springfield - (OR)Municipal | 0.7 hrs40 min | 0.8 | 4.5× better |
| 12 | Northern Wasco County PUD - (OR)Political Subdivision | 0.4 hrs27 min | 0.3 | 6.6× better |
Outage time is SAIDI: the average minutes a customer went without power across the year, storms and major events included. Outages/yr is SAIFI. The US median across all reporting utilities is 3 hours (178 minutes).
What these numbers do and do not say
SAIDI counts the minutes an average customer spent without power over the year, including storms and other major events. We rank on the figure that includes them, because excluding storms would describe a year nobody actually lived through.
Utilities report these numbers themselves, and smaller co-ops and municipal systems often serve rural territory where a single line fault affects a large share of customers. A high number is not automatically mismanagement — but it is still the power you did not have.
Utilities that filed no reliability data are left out entirely rather than counted as zero.