City of McMinnville, OR
Power reliability at City of McMinnville
Outages at City of McMinnville are uncommon. Oregon customers on this grid saw 0 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 32 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 88% less outage time than the Oregon state average of 4.3 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of McMinnville looks like
This utility did not file enough detail to say how long a typical outage runs here, so there is no basis yet for which kind of backup fits best. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
Do City of McMinnville customers need a generator
Most City of McMinnville customers keep power almost all year. Serving 17,989 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
Where this number comes from
City of McMinnville filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Oregon territory, serving 17,989 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Oregon average instead of just this one utility? Oregon's statewide record is here. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.