County annual report · FIPS 16045
2016 Gem County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Gem County, ID went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Idaho average 1.5 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 32 Idaho counties and 1039th 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 Gem 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 | December 25, 2016 20:15 | December 25, 2016 21:30 | 1h 15m | 6,754 | 8,443 |
| 2 | December 10, 2016 15:00 | December 10, 2016 19:00 | 4h | 2,666 | 3,597 |
| 3 | October 28, 2016 00:30 | October 28, 2016 02:15 | 1h 45m | 2,638 | 1,402 |
| 4 | October 4, 2016 21:30 | October 4, 2016 21:45 | 15m | 2,130 | 533 |
| 5 | July 8, 2016 13:30 | July 8, 2016 14:15 | 45m | 2,126 | 1,068 |
| 6 | May 7, 2016 00:30 | May 7, 2016 04:45 | 4h 15m | 1,953 | 6,935 |
| 7 | July 9, 2016 00:15 | July 9, 2016 01:45 | 1h 30m | 396 | 307 |
| 8 | April 25, 2016 23:15 | April 26, 2016 00:30 | 1h 15m | 395 | 279 |
| 9 | April 30, 2016 09:30 | April 30, 2016 12:15 | 2h 45m | 238 | 655 |
| 10 | November 23, 2016 17:15 | November 23, 2016 18:00 | 45m | 199 | 149 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 10 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 Gem 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 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 8,691 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. Gem County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gem 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/gem-county