Marion County power outages
Salem & Keizer power outage map and updates
Power out in Salem & Keizer? 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 PGE, Salem Electric and Pacific Power
- About 20 hrs of essentials on one battery
- Official utility maps only
Live outage maps
Who provides power in Salem & Keizer?
Salem and Keizer are split between three utilities: PGE serves most of Salem, Salem Electric serves West Salem and Keizer neighborhoods, and Pacific Power serves parts of the south and east. Check the right map first: outages often hit one utility and not its neighbor.
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.
Investor-owned utility
Portland General Electric / PGE
Electric cooperative
Salem Electric
Investor-owned utility
Pacific Power
Outage risk
Why Salem loses power
The storms and grid conditions behind most outages in the Willamette Valley, and what they mean for backup power at home.
Valley ice storms
Freezing fog and ice storms settle into the valley floor. The January 2024 storm left homes across the valley without power for days.
Windstorms off the Coast Range
Fall and winter fronts push strong gusts across open farmland and into neighborhoods with tall trees.
Fire-season line settings
In high-risk areas, utilities switch to more sensitive line settings during fire season. Lines shut off faster when something touches them, which prevents fires but can mean more frequent summer outages.
Outage history
Recent major outages
The biggest recent outages in and around Salem, as reported by the utilities themselves.
February 2021
A series of ice storms knocked out power to 421,649 PGE customers in total, with more than 288,000 out at the peak. PGE called it one of the largest prolonged outages in its history.
Source: Portland General Electric
January 2024
An ice storm left about 167,000 PGE customers without power at the peak, some for several days.
Source: Portland General Electric
Backup power
How long a battery lasts in Salem
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
- 8.4 kWh/day
- Solar recharge, July
- 37.5 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 Salem. In December, solar covers about 70% of a day of essentials, so winter outages lean on the battery.
Already have solar?
Add a battery to the system you have
We add batteries to existing solar, including systems installed by other companies or by installers that are no longer in business. We check your inverter and electrical panel, then size a battery for the circuits you care about most.
Pacific Power customers can enroll in the Wattsmart Battery program, which pays you to share your battery during peak events.
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Salem & Keizer power outage questions
Straight answers from the local team.