Power County, Idaho Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

Power County, Idaho had 4 major outages from 2016 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.26 times the US outage time per person and 2.61 times the Idaho rate. It ranks 8 of 35 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 8 years of records.

0.5major outages per year

3 of 8years with a major outage

48 hrslongest major outage

May, Sephardest months

May and September made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 31, 2020, reached 1,859 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 47.8 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2016	8,892	10	0
2017	33,090	20	1
2018	3,485	6	0
2019	4,149	12	0
2020	96,456	19	2
2021	15,819	9	0
2022	37,592	17	1
2023	7,130	9	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
May 31, 2020	47.8	1,859	43,154
Sep 8, 2020	29.2	1,777	18,046
Sep 15, 2017	6.0	3,057	17,867
Jun 25, 2022	9.2	1,788	15,554
Aug 13, 2020	5.2	1,859	9,760

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.