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2016 Boise County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Boise County, ID went without power for an average of 18.5 hours, a total of 65K customer-hours (Idaho average 1.5 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 32 Idaho counties and 161st 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 Boise 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 | June 10, 2016 14:45 | June 10, 2016 20:15 | 5h 30m | 2,831 | 12K |
| 2 | July 5, 2016 18:30 | July 5, 2016 20:00 | 1h 30m | 2,604 | 1,976 |
| 3 | August 16, 2016 13:45 | August 16, 2016 17:00 | 3h 15m | 1,969 | 6,399 |
| 4 | May 26, 2016 16:15 | May 26, 2016 22:30 | 6h 15m | 1,488 | 1,898 |
| 5 | October 17, 2016 09:30 | October 17, 2016 11:15 | 1h 45m | 1,419 | 2,483 |
| 6 | September 22, 2016 23:45 | September 23, 2016 09:30 | 9h 45m | 1,418 | 14K |
| 7 | August 6, 2016 01:30 | August 7, 2016 07:30 | 1d 6h | 811 | 14K |
| 8 | October 31, 2016 02:30 | October 31, 2016 05:00 | 2h 30m | 807 | 1,854 |
| 9 | June 4, 2016 01:45 | June 4, 2016 03:15 | 1h 30m | 633 | 950 |
| 10 | April 24, 2016 00:15 | April 24, 2016 02:15 | 2h | 629 | 612 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 17 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Boise 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho Power Co | 2016 | 2.8 hrs | 1.12 | 2.8 hrs | 1.12 |
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 ÷ 3,491 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. Boise County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Boise 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/boise-county