Bear Lake County, Idaho Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Bear Lake County, Idaho had 4 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.32 times the US outage time per person and 2.73 times the Idaho rate. It ranks 7 of 35 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

4 of 7years with a major outage

21 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Mayhardest months

November and May made up 61% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 19, 2017, reached 4,745 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 12.8 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
2017	65,366	5	1
2018	3,354	6	0
2019	8,140	2	1
2020	436	2	0
2021	10,591	12	1
2022	33,270	9	1
2023	31,694	15	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
Nov 19, 2017	12.8	4,745	59,293
Nov 9, 2022	14.0	2,467	18,970
Sep 13, 2023	6.8	1,893	12,778
Jul 10, 2019	20.8	753	7,953
Aug 30, 2022	3.5	2,237	7,826

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.