Josephine County, Oregon Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Josephine County, Oregon had 20 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.22 times the US outage time per person and 1.09 times the Oregon rate. It ranks 8 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

2.9major outages per year

6 of 7years with a major outage

112 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Dechardest months

January and December made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 16, 2020, reached 10,816 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 111.5 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	15,742	12	0
2018	200,982	57	2
2019	136,414	61	3
2020	522,040	57	4
2021	188,354	56	3
2022	455,596	61	4
2023	327,805	113	4

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Jan 16, 2020	111.5	10,816	402,316
Dec 27, 2022	67.8	12,394	274,292
Nov 24, 2018	5.0	22,488	60,742
Jan 27, 2021	6.2	43,968	48,038
Feb 27, 2019	33.2	2,229	39,624

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.