County annual report · FIPS 16021
2017 Boundary County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Boundary County, ID went without power for an average of 11.9 hours, a total of 51K customer-hours (Idaho average 3.0 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 44 Idaho counties and 462nd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with ID, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Idaho customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Boundary 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 | December 19, 2017 20:30 | December 23, 2017 23:45 | 4d 3h | 1,499 | 24K |
| 2 | October 17, 2017 20:45 | October 18, 2017 20:00 | 23h 15m | 1,348 | 16K |
| 3 | November 3, 2017 07:15 | November 4, 2017 01:30 | 18h 15m | 754 | 1,844 |
| 4 | July 21, 2017 19:00 | July 21, 2017 21:45 | 2h 45m | 740 | 2,035 |
| 5 | June 27, 2017 02:00 | June 27, 2017 20:15 | 18h 15m | 692 | 1,888 |
| 6 | December 18, 2017 05:45 | December 18, 2017 07:45 | 2h | 310 | 316 |
| 7 | October 19, 2017 01:30 | October 19, 2017 17:45 | 16h 15m | 297 | 1,144 |
| 8 | November 20, 2017 05:15 | November 20, 2017 09:45 | 4h 30m | 83 | 244 |
| 9 | August 1, 2017 20:15 | August 1, 2017 20:30 | 15m | 78 | 20 |
| 10 | October 22, 2017 17:45 | October 22, 2017 20:00 | 2h 15m | 63 | 142 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 7 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Boundary 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Lights, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Bonners Ferry | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,261 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. Boundary County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Boundary 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2017/idaho/boundary-county