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2018 Boundary County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Boundary County, ID went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Idaho average 2.0 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 44 Idaho counties and 928th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with ID, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Idaho customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Boundary County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 2, 2018 05:00 | April 2, 2018 12:30 | 7h 30m | 1,903 | 11K |
| 2 | April 2, 2018 13:15 | April 3, 2018 01:15 | 12h | 773 | 1,862 |
| 3 | December 12, 2018 06:45 | December 12, 2018 08:30 | 1h 45m | 650 | 813 |
| 4 | November 17, 2018 07:45 | November 17, 2018 23:00 | 15h 15m | 649 | 4,971 |
| 5 | June 9, 2018 20:15 | June 9, 2018 23:15 | 3h | 644 | 1,499 |
| 6 | April 6, 2018 06:15 | April 6, 2018 10:15 | 4h | 558 | 964 |
| 7 | May 25, 2018 14:45 | May 25, 2018 16:30 | 1h 45m | 140 | 211 |
| 8 | June 9, 2018 15:15 | June 9, 2018 18:00 | 2h 45m | 102 | 87 |
| 9 | January 24, 2018 11:00 | January 24, 2018 22:45 | 11h 45m | 101 | 258 |
| 10 | November 30, 2018 20:00 | November 30, 2018 20:30 | 30m | 84 | 42 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 9 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 2018, 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 91% of Idaho's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/idaho/boundary-county