Twin Falls County, Idaho Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Twin Falls County, Idaho had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.27 times the US outage time per person and 0.56 times the Idaho rate. It ranks 28 of 35 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

12 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Julhardest months

August and July made up 28% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 19, 2020, reached 4,458 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 7.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	29,159	13	0
2016	32,758	42	0
2017	83,154	54	0
2018	51,365	47	0
2019	25,634	33	1
2020	121,697	53	2
2021	84,955	53	1
2022	82,932	48	1
2023	63,896	43	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
Aug 19, 2020	7.0	4,458	29,301
Mar 10, 2023	5.0	9,203	19,924
Aug 11, 2015	5.8	7,107	15,512
Jul 29, 2017	3.5	4,277	14,712
Oct 22, 2022	12.0	1,920	13,924

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.