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2017 Benewah County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Benewah County, ID went without power for an average of 8.9 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (Idaho average 3.0 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 44 Idaho counties and 601st of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with ID, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Idaho customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benewah County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 19, 2017 20:30 | September 19, 2017 21:00 | 30m | 3,488 | 1,744 |
| 2 | August 6, 2017 19:30 | August 6, 2017 22:45 | 3h 15m | 3,390 | 11K |
| 3 | November 23, 2017 23:00 | November 24, 2017 11:45 | 12h 45m | 1,440 | 5,914 |
| 4 | October 13, 2017 13:15 | October 16, 2017 20:00 | 3d 6h | 923 | 4,783 |
| 5 | October 31, 2017 03:30 | October 31, 2017 10:00 | 6h 30m | 750 | 1,849 |
| 6 | April 30, 2017 22:30 | May 1, 2017 06:45 | 8h 15m | 667 | 1,119 |
| 7 | January 14, 2017 16:15 | January 14, 2017 18:30 | 2h 15m | 582 | 1,169 |
| 8 | August 1, 2017 13:00 | August 1, 2017 19:15 | 6h 15m | 364 | 915 |
| 9 | September 9, 2017 20:30 | September 9, 2017 22:45 | 2h 15m | 364 | 538 |
| 10 | April 10, 2017 15:15 | April 10, 2017 21:30 | 6h 15m | 297 | 111 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 23 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 3.7 hrs | 1.38 | 3.4 hrs | 1.27 |
| Inland Power & Light Company | 2017 | 4.1 hrs | 2.05 | 4.1 hrs | 2.05 |
| Clearwater Power Company | 2017 | 11.2 hrs | 3.27 | 11.2 hrs | 3.27 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/idaho/benewah-county