Bonner County, Idaho Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Bonner County, Idaho had 38 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.79 times the US outage time per person and 5.78 times the Idaho rate. It ranks 4 of 35 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

103 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Novhardest months

September and November made up 33% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 7, 2020, reached 15,483 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 103.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Idaho counties

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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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	156,073	44	2
2016	63,295	15	1
2017	443,801	76	5
2018	120,231	61	2
2019	206,746	53	5
2020	1,014,283	84	6
2021	845,090	88	7
2022	306,591	91	7
2023	159,924	85	3

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 7, 2020	103.2	15,483	415,484
Dec 19, 2017	60.8	11,568	305,770
Mar 13, 2020	48.0	17,259	266,788
Jan 13, 2021	61.2	18,423	228,810
Nov 15, 2021	68.0	25,571	220,214

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.