State · EIA Form 861 · OR
Oregon
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, SAIDI and SAIFI for Oregon utilities come from the federal annual survey. 16 utilities report reliability metrics; figures are customer-weighted state averages, not a guarantee for any single address.
Signature read: short chronic outage minutes relative to the 51-state Form 861 cohort (<=156 min tercile cut).
EIA Form 861 · Continuity Brief
Oregon
EIA Form 861 Continuity Brief · August 2026 · IEEE 1366 SAIDI/SAIFI minutes, not a storm forecast.
Oregon sits in the lower-third SAIDI band at 121.5 minutes across 16 reporting utilities (Salem Electric - (OR) lowest at 5.4), under the live national mean of 341.
Named SAIDI peers (in-state best + nearest-state averages)
State SAIDI neighbourhood (minutes / customer-year)
- Oregon 121.5
- New York 122.0
- Utah 118.7
- Montana 118.7
- Minnesota 126.7
- New Jersey 108.3
Lower is fewer interruption minutes. Neighbours are nearest other-state averages in this corpus.
Oregon vs all states by EIA Form 861 utility headcount
Where this state's reporting utility count sits among every state in the Form 861 file (coverage density, not reliability quality)
16 Top 51% more reporting utilities than 49% of 51 states
States, banded by electric utilities reporting on EIA Form 861
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source EIA Form 861 · 2026-08-30
Utilities Ranked by Reliability · Oregon short-outage cohort
All 16 electric utilities in Oregon with reliability data, sorted by 2023 SAIDI; statewide average sits in the lower-third Form 861 band.
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Oregon
Fewest outage minutes · live table sort
Top 10 Oregon utilities by fewest outage minutes. Lower SAIDI is better - not a quality score beyond interruption duration.
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Oregon
| # | Utility | Type | SAIDI 2023 | SAIFI 2023 | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salem Electric - (OR) | Cooperative | 5.4 | 0.13 | 20,745 |
| 2 | Northern Wasco County PUD | Municipal | 12.4 | 0.07 | 10,466 |
| 3 | City of Forest Grove | Municipal | 19.2 | 0.40 | 11,226 |
| 4 | City of Springfield - (OR) | Municipal | 22.1 | 0.26 | 32,655 |
| 5 | City of McMinnville - (OR) | Municipal | 37.0 | 0.32 | 19,436 |
| 6 | City of Eugene - (OR) | Municipal | 48.4 | 0.38 | 98,716 |
| 7 | Umatilla Electric Coop Assn | Cooperative | 57.1 | 0.55 | 16,364 |
| 8 | Portland General Electric Co | IOU | 109.0 | 0.65 | 928,321 |
| 9 | Clatskanie Peoples Util Dist | Municipal | 115.1 | 1.16 | 4,314 |
| 10 | Columbia River Peoples Ut Dist | Municipal | 125.8 | 0.86 | 17,226 |
| 11 | Oregon Trail El Cons Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 165.0 | 1.86 | 31,731 |
| 12 | Midstate Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 208.1 | - | 21,186 |
| 13 | Central Lincoln People's Ut Dt | Municipal | 211.6 | 1.22 | 41,350 |
| 14 | Coos-Curry Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 232.4 | 1.69 | 18,519 |
| 15 | Consumers Power, Inc | Cooperative | 572.2 | 1.95 | 22,985 |
| 16 | Lane Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 851.7 | 2.81 | 13,577 |
Nationwide states with similar utility inventory or customer scale
Cross-state peer sets for Oregon (lower-third SAIDI band). Nearest-SAIDI neighbors stay in Read-with; these neighborhoods compare EIA Form 861 headcount and summed customer accounts.
Similar utility headcount
Nearest states by reporting utility count (16 here).
Similar customer scale
Nearest states by summed customer accounts (1.3M here), excluding the headcount peer set.
Read with this Oregon roster · short-outage band
- Lowest published SAIDI in Oregon: Salem Electric - (OR) (5.4 min)
- Highest published SAIDI in Oregon: Lane Electric Coop Inc (851.7 min)
- Ownership mix here: Municipal leads (8 of 16 utilities) · national type means
- Nearest avg SAIDI: New York (122.0 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Utah (118.7 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Montana (118.7 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Minnesota (126.7 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: New Jersey (108.3 min)
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Form 861 Annual Electric Power Industry Report, reliability · 2020-2023 State averages are rebuilt from utility filings in this portal DB; corpus ranks use headcount and customer sums.