Lincoln County power outages
Newport power outage map and updates
Power out in Newport? Open your utility's live outage map first, then see what causes outages here and how to keep the lights on next time.
- Served by Central Lincoln
- About 20 hrs of essentials on one battery
- Official utility maps only
Live outage maps
Who provides power in Newport?
Newport is served by Central Lincoln PUD. Storm season runs November through February, and transmission failures can black out much of Lincoln County at once.
We link straight to each utility's official map, because outage data changes by the minute. Not sure which utility you have? It's printed on your bill.
People's utility district
Central Lincoln PUD
Outage risk
Why Newport loses power
The storms and grid conditions behind most outages on the Oregon Coast, and what they mean for backup power at home.
Winter windstorms
Atlantic-style storms hit the coast first, with gusts that regularly topple trees across lines. Coastal outages cluster from November through February.
Transmission dependence
Many coastal towns are fed by a small number of transmission lines over the Coast Range. When one of those fails, whole communities go dark at once.
Slower restoration
Crews have long drives and narrow highways to reach damage, so multi-day outages are more common than in the valley.
Outage history
Recent major outages
The biggest recent outages in and around Newport, as reported by the utilities themselves.
February 2025
Bonneville Power transmission line failures during a storm left about 16,500 Central Lincoln PUD customers without power.
Source: Central Lincoln PUD
December 2025
Back-to-back wind and rain storms left roughly 15,000 Lincoln County customers in the dark at one point.
Source: Central Lincoln PUD
Backup power
How long a battery lasts in Newport
Grid-tied solar shuts off during an outage. A home battery keeps your essentials running automatically, with no fuel and no noise, and solar recharges it every day the grid is down.
- Essentials on one battery
- ~20 hrs
- Solar recharge, December
- 9.7 kWh/day
- Solar recharge, July
- 37.7 kWh/day
Assumes a 10 kWh battery, essentials averaging 0.5 kW (refrigerator, lights, internet, furnace fan, phones) and a 7 kW array, using NREL PVWatts production data for Newport. In December, solar covers about 81% of a day of essentials, so winter outages lean on the battery.
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Newport power outage questions
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