Power Out Map
– 0% of Jackson out 0 customers out in Oregon

Power outage history

Jackson County Oregon

5.4hours

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

16th most of 32 in Oregon 18% below the national median

Worst outage on record Sep 9, 2020 19% of customers out · 90% back in 7.0 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 5.4h / yr State average 7.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 9.0days Sep 8, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 75% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 18 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 125,318 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 Jackson'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

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 18 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Jackson, hours without power per customer

JacksonUS median countyOregon average
0 5 10 15 20 0.5 ’17 1.3 ’18 2.6 ’19 18 ’20 1.7 ’21 3.1 ’22 3.9 ’23 7.0 ’24 5.8 ’25 OR 7.9 US 6.6

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
Sep 8, 2020 Wildfire 23,628 19% 9.0 d 7.0 d 1.7M
Feb 3, 2025 Winter storm 7,906 6% 2.3 d 2.5 d 168k
Jan 16, 2020 Winter storm 6,297 5% 2.3 d 2.4 d 164k
Jul 7, 2025 Wildfire 25,776 21% 15 h 14 h 124k
Mar 26, 2023 No storm report 11,038 9% 26 h 26 h 88k
Jul 15, 2024 Wildfire 12,684 10% 13 h 7.2 h 56k
Feb 26, 2019 No storm report 4,063 3% 24 h – 46k
Jul 11, 2022 No storm report 5,705 5% 8.5 h 8.2 h 38k
Jun 20, 2024 Wildfire 15,769 13% 4.5 h 3.5 h 31k
Aug 17, 2024 Wildfire 6,986 6% 10 h 7.8 h 31k
Feb 24, 2024 No storm report 3,989 3% 9.2 h – 29k
Jun 11, 2020 No storm report 18,986 15% 2.8 h 2.2 h 28k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +2h 90% by +8h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Jackson from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Wildfire 61%
  • No storm on record 26%
  • Winter storm 10%
  • Heat 2.1%
  • Windstorm 1.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Jackson

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
City of Ashland OR – – – 9.2 90k

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

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 125,318 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 →