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2015 Benewah County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Benewah County, ID went without power for an average of 32.2 hours, a total of 150K customer-hours (Idaho average 2.6 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 31 Idaho counties and 71st of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with ID, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Idaho customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benewah County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 18, 2015 00:00 | November 18, 2015 15:00 | 15h | 8,756 | 54K |
| 2 | November 18, 2015 15:45 | November 25, 2015 00:45 | 6d 9h | 5,335 | 45K |
| 3 | December 22, 2015 16:45 | December 23, 2015 00:45 | 8h | 1,030 | 5,521 |
| 4 | December 23, 2015 16:30 | December 27, 2015 03:45 | 3d 11h | 948 | 27K |
| 5 | December 17, 2015 00:45 | December 18, 2015 22:15 | 1d 21h | 923 | 2,854 |
| 6 | September 30, 2015 13:15 | September 30, 2015 19:45 | 6h 30m | 908 | 5,010 |
| 7 | December 15, 2015 22:30 | December 16, 2015 21:00 | 22h 30m | 683 | 1,889 |
| 8 | November 4, 2015 17:00 | November 4, 2015 23:30 | 6h 30m | 422 | 2,603 |
| 9 | December 22, 2015 13:00 | December 22, 2015 15:45 | 2h 45m | 335 | 412 |
| 10 | December 10, 2015 17:00 | December 11, 2015 04:30 | 11h 30m | 330 | 1,144 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 16 reached 100+ customers, 3 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Benewah County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inland Power & Light Company | 2015 | 115.7 hrs | 6.15 | 4.2 hrs | 1.41 |
| Clearwater Power Company | 2015 | 21.7 hrs | 3.33 | 21.7 hrs | 3.33 |
| Avista Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Avista Corp,avista | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kootenai Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Plummer - (ID) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Idaho's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,666 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Benewah County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benewah County, ID annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/idaho/benewah-county