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2016 Benewah County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Benewah County, ID went without power for an average of 14.6 hours, a total of 68K customer-hours (Idaho average 1.5 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 32 Idaho counties and 222nd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with ID, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Idaho customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benewah County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 2, 2016 13:15 | October 2, 2016 23:00 | 9h 45m | 3,383 | 17K |
| 2 | September 9, 2016 03:15 | September 9, 2016 09:45 | 6h 30m | 2,267 | 9,509 |
| 3 | October 10, 2016 10:45 | October 10, 2016 17:45 | 7h | 1,438 | 5,976 |
| 4 | February 3, 2016 10:15 | February 3, 2016 12:30 | 2h 15m | 1,408 | 2,025 |
| 5 | April 20, 2016 20:15 | April 27, 2016 23:00 | 7d 2h | 1,407 | 532 |
| 6 | October 31, 2016 08:00 | October 31, 2016 12:30 | 4h 30m | 758 | 1,734 |
| 7 | May 23, 2016 04:30 | May 23, 2016 06:00 | 1h 30m | 664 | 501 |
| 8 | March 14, 2016 03:15 | March 14, 2016 05:30 | 2h 15m | 393 | 798 |
| 9 | December 7, 2016 09:15 | December 7, 2016 11:30 | 2h 15m | 366 | 649 |
| 10 | February 4, 2016 11:00 | February 4, 2016 17:45 | 6h 45m | 346 | 1,168 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 27 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 2016, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avista Corp | 2016 | 2.2 hrs | 0.88 | 2.2 hrs | 0.88 |
| Inland Power & Light Company | 2016 | 4.2 hrs | 1.44 | 4.2 hrs | 1.44 |
| Clearwater Power Company | 2016 | 4.9 hrs | 1.50 | 4.9 hrs | 1.50 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/idaho/benewah-county