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

Power outage history

Wallowa County Oregon

13hours

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

6th most of 32 in Oregon 1.9× the national median

Worst outage on record May 19, 2025 100% of customers out · 90% back in 7.5 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 13h / yr State average 7.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 7.1 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 3.6days Dec 17, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 14% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 26 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 4,079 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 Wallowa'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

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 26 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Wallowa, hours without power per customer

WallowaUS median countyOregon average
0 10 20 30 ’15 ’16 2.5 ’17 3.2 ’18 3.0 ’19 9.3 ’20 3.9 ’21 26 ’22 14 ’23 22 ’24 19 ’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
May 19, 2025 No storm report 4,079 100% 7.2 h 7.5 h 29k
Jan 9, 2022 No storm report 4,079 100% 7.5 h 6.8 h 27k
Aug 11, 2022 Thunderstorms 4,079 100% 24 h 19 h 22k
Oct 31, 2023 No storm report 4,079 100% 4.5 h 4.5 h 18k
Dec 17, 2025 No storm report 344 8% 3.6 d 30 h 16k
Jan 3, 2022 No storm report 1,392 34% 29 h 18 h 12k
Dec 27, 2022 No storm report 4,079 100% 9.5 h 4.2 h 8.9k
Nov 17, 2020 Windstorm 1,991 49% 6.0 h 4.5 h 7.8k
Jul 24, 2024 Thunderstorms 2,663 65% 18 h 2.0 h 7.4k
Jun 11, 2025 No storm report 2,120 52% 4.2 h 3.2 h 6.1k
Apr 27, 2023 No storm report 878 22% 6.2 h 9.8 h 5.5k
Feb 3, 2023 No storm report 4,079 100% 1.5 h 1.2 h 5.3k

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 +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 Wallowa from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 86%
  • Thunderstorms 7.8%
  • Winter storm 3.5%
  • Windstorm 2.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Wallowa

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
Idaho Power Co Investor Owned 273 270 1.47 11.9 14k
Clearwater Power Company ID – – – 12.6 1.5k

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 4,079 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 →