Power outage history
Douglas County Oregon
7.9hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
9th most of 32 in Oregon 1.2× 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 Douglas's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 34 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Douglas, 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 24, 2019 | Flooding | 34,370 | 52% | 7.3 d | 4.2 d | 2.1M |
| Sep 8, 2020 | No storm report | 7,798 | 12% | 3.5 d | 30 min | 130k |
| Dec 14, 2018 | Windstorm | 13,342 | 20% | 22 h | 13 h | 108k |
| Mar 16, 2025 | Flooding | 10,479 | 16% | 27 h | 12 h | 56k |
| Dec 27, 2021 | Winter storm | 1,930 | 3% | 37 h | – | 47k |
| Oct 3, 2025 | Wildfire | 2,364 | 4% | 12 h | – | 28k |
| Aug 15, 2023 | Heat | 2,521 | 4% | 14 h | – | 26k |
| Mar 12, 2022 | No storm report | 3,696 | 6% | 17 h | 12 h | 26k |
| Dec 26, 2024 | Windstorm | 3,498 | 5% | 18 h | 28 h | 26k |
| Sep 9, 2022 | Wildfire | 1,065 | 2% | 20 h | – | 21k |
| Feb 24, 2025 | Windstorm | 2,988 | 5% | 15 h | – | 20k |
| Aug 18, 2023 | No storm report | 1,658 | 3% | 12 h | – | 18k |
| Aug 17, 2023 | No storm report | 1,969 | 3% | 9.5 h | – | 18k |
| Aug 2, 2024 | Wildfire | 2,794 | 4% | 8.5 h | – | 17k |
| Dec 17, 2025 | No storm report | 3,567 | 5% | 10 h | 11 h | 16k |
| Jan 16, 2020 | Winter storm | 1,140 | 2% | 20 h | – | 16k |
| Oct 19, 2025 | No storm report | 1,886 | 3% | 12 h | – | 15k |
| Dec 26, 2021 | Winter storm | 3,147 | 5% | 13 h | – | 15k |
| Jun 14, 2024 | No storm report | 2,338 | 4% | 7.5 h | – | 13k |
| Aug 9, 2024 | Wildfire | 2,927 | 4% | 8.2 h | – | 12k |
| Nov 13, 2025 | No storm report | 1,677 | 3% | 7.0 h | – | 12k |
| Aug 24, 2023 | Wildfire | 2,353 | 4% | 5.8 h | – | 11k |
| Oct 29, 2022 | No storm report | 13,096 | 20% | 1.0 h | 48 min | 10k |
| Jul 31, 2023 | No storm report | 1,650 | 3% | 8.0 h | – | 10k |
| Jan 21, 2025 | Winter storm | 15,868 | 24% | 1.2 h | 48 min | 9.9k |
| Dec 27, 2023 | No storm report | 3,197 | 5% | 3.0 h | – | 9.6k |
| Oct 30, 2021 | No storm report | 1,000 | 2% | 12 h | – | 9.3k |
| Nov 15, 2021 | No storm report | 1,408 | 2% | 8.0 h | – | 8.5k |
| Jan 15, 2020 | Windstorm | 10,820 | 16% | 1.5 h | 1.2 h | 8.3k |
| Mar 30, 2025 | No storm report | 1,102 | 2% | 11 h | – | 8.0k |
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 Douglas from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Flooding 64%
- No storm on record 17%
- Wildfire 8.0%
- Windstorm 5.6%
- Winter storm 3.6%
- Heat 1.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Douglas
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 |
| Douglas Electric Coop | OR | – | – | – | 10.3 | 123k |
| Central Lincoln People's Ut Dt | Political Subdivision | 516 | – | 1.92 | 11.4 | 36k |
| Emerald People's Utility Dist | Political Subdivision | – | – | – | 11.5 | 20k |
| Coos-Curry Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 188 | 77 | 1.14 | 14.0 | 16k |
| City of Drain | OR | – | – | – | – | 7.4k |
| Umpqua Indian Utility Cooperative | Cooperative | – | – | – | 10.0 | 52 |
| 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 66,051 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 →