Yamhill County, Oregon Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Yamhill County, Oregon had 30 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.02 times the US outage time per person and 0.91 times the Oregon rate. It ranks 12 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.3major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

132 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Sephardest months

February and September made up 59% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 13, 2021, reached 9,175 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 132.5 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Oregon counties

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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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	77,233	37	1
2016	83,118	34	2
2017	253,261	33	3
2018	29,980	25	0
2019	74,950	26	2
2020	302,310	28	6
2021	1,067,070	45	6
2022	428,030	44	6
2023	168,553	44	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
Feb 13, 2021	132.5	9,175	750,870
Apr 7, 2017	54.5	11,962	189,178
Sep 8, 2020	43.0	8,946	173,654
Sep 9, 2022	48.5	5,930	169,486
Dec 27, 2022	63.2	8,081	132,862

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.