County annual report · FIPS 16045
2017 Gem County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Gem County, ID went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Idaho average 3.0 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 44 Idaho counties and 1327th 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 Gem 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 | February 20, 2017 20:45 | February 20, 2017 21:45 | 1h | 6,753 | 5,636 |
| 2 | August 30, 2017 22:45 | August 31, 2017 01:15 | 2h 30m | 4,039 | 3,896 |
| 3 | October 3, 2017 13:45 | October 3, 2017 15:15 | 1h 30m | 1,833 | 1,614 |
| 4 | June 11, 2017 13:15 | June 11, 2017 14:00 | 45m | 1,723 | 1,292 |
| 5 | January 6, 2017 13:15 | January 6, 2017 21:15 | 8h | 1,292 | 5,204 |
| 6 | January 9, 2017 05:00 | January 9, 2017 06:15 | 1h 15m | 1,292 | 1,615 |
| 7 | April 28, 2017 00:15 | April 28, 2017 02:00 | 1h 45m | 473 | 828 |
| 8 | February 20, 2017 01:30 | February 20, 2017 03:30 | 2h | 399 | 289 |
| 9 | October 13, 2017 11:45 | October 13, 2017 12:45 | 1h | 399 | 399 |
| 10 | October 10, 2017 13:45 | October 10, 2017 15:00 | 1h 15m | 253 | 316 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 20 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho Power Co | 2017 | 3.8 hrs | 1.38 | 3.6 hrs | 1.35 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/gem-county