Madison County, Idaho Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Madison County, Idaho had 2 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.38 times the US outage time per person and 0.79 times the Idaho rate. It ranks 20 of 35 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

2 of 7years with a major outage

24 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Dechardest months

September and December made up 40% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 8, 2020, reached 14,216 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 24.2 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	3,590	7	0
2018	94,254	22	1
2019	5,250	13	0
2020	123,164	27	1
2021	90,184	18	0
2022	27,674	20	0
2023	21,019	13	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	24.2	14,216	81,182
Oct 29, 2021	4.0	9,972	37,608
Dec 8, 2018	4.2	12,911	36,039
Feb 3, 2021	5.0	5,173	20,170
Jun 12, 2021	5.2	13,277	18,887

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.