Idaho County, Idaho Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Idaho County, Idaho had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.61 times the US outage time per person and 3.33 times the Idaho rate. It ranks 5 of 35 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

32 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aughardest months

December and August made up 37% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 14, 2021, reached 6,202 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 17.8 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
2015	60,983	36	1
2016	40,157	11	1
2017	87,990	31	4
2018	18,723	14	0
2019	62,364	26	2
2020	102,065	22	6
2021	126,834	27	2
2022	59,670	27	1
2023	76,552	22	2

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
Dec 14, 2021	17.8	6,202	61,700
Feb 18, 2016	31.8	652	20,116
Dec 29, 2017	25.0	770	17,171
Dec 11, 2023	19.8	715	14,121
Aug 18, 2020	20.5	693	13,802

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.