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

Power outage history

Lake County Oregon

4.3hours

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

23rd most of 32 in Oregon 35% below the national median

Worst outage on record Aug 3, 2024 34% of customers out · 90% back in 37 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 4.3h / yr State average 7.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.6 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 2.9days Apr 19, 2024, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 66% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 20 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 4,992 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 Lake'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

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 20 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Lake, hours without power per customer

LakeUS median countyOregon average
0 5 10 15 20 25 ’17 0.7 ’18 0.5 ’19 0.7 ’20 1.1 ’21 1.3 ’22 0.8 ’23 20 ’24 9.5 ’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
Aug 2, 2024 Wildfire 1,721 34% 2.7 d 37 h 32k
Apr 19, 2024 No storm report 354 7% 2.9 d 2.8 d 25k
Feb 2, 2025 Winter storm 1,001 20% 45 h 14 h 15k
Feb 4, 2025 Winter storm 2,351 47% 6.0 h 2.2 h 14k
Aug 1, 2024 Wildfire 453 9% 24 h 17 h 11k
May 21, 2024 Wildfire 275 6% 23 h 25 h 6.3k
Jun 22, 2021 Wildfire 2,341 47% 2.2 h 2.2 h 5.3k
Sep 3, 2025 No storm report 350 7% 23 h 26 h 4.3k
Sep 6, 2024 Wildfire 723 14% 5.5 h 1.8 h 3.5k
Aug 20, 2022 No storm report 715 14% 5.2 h 5.2 h 2.9k
Sep 15, 2018 Winter storm 1,640 33% 1.5 h 1.5 h 2.5k
Jun 25, 2024 No storm report 2,014 40% 1.0 h 2.8 h 2.0k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +6h

When it happens

The outage clock

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

00061218 Jan inside

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

  • Wildfire 42%
  • No storm on record 34%
  • Winter storm 21%
  • Heat 2.2%
  • Windstorm 1.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Lake

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
Harney Electric Coop, Inc OR – – – 8.2 19k
Midstate Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 212 212 – 11.8 19k
Surprise Valley Electrification Cooperative – – – 13.1 1.2k
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.

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 4,992 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 →