Bannock County, Idaho Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Bannock County, Idaho had 3 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.26 times the US outage time per person and 0.54 times the Idaho rate. It ranks 29 of 35 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

28 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Janhardest months

September and January made up 28% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 8, 2020, reached 5,362 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 28.0 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	7,198	5	0
2016	38,227	28	0
2017	61,164	37	0
2018	47,442	43	0
2019	41,475	36	0
2020	174,887	48	1
2021	60,719	38	1
2022	55,058	28	1
2023	40,936	42	0

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Sep 8, 2020	28.0	5,362	48,646
Jan 16, 2020	2.2	31,731	44,066
Dec 14, 2021	11.0	5,053	18,693
Jul 11, 2017	2.2	6,803	13,283
Jun 16, 2020	3.5	3,796	12,623

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.