City of Forest Grove, OR
City of Forest Grove's outage record
City of Forest Grove customers in Oregon rarely lose power at all: 0.4 interruptions last year, adding up to just 50 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 80% less outage time than the Oregon state average of 4.3 hours a year.
How long a single City of Forest Grove outage runs
Outages here average 2.1 hours before power returns, a moderate length where a portable generator earns its keep over battery storage alone. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 11,580 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Forest Grove customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Forest Grove files with federal regulators every year - serving 11,580 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Oregon as a whole, across every utility that filed: Oregon's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.