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2019 Benewah County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Benewah County, ID went without power for an average of 7.1 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (Idaho average 2.2 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 44 Idaho counties and 790th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with ID, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Idaho customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benewah County, 2019
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 21, 2019 01:00 | April 21, 2019 06:45 | 5h 45m | 1,804 | 9,816 |
| 2 | February 13, 2019 14:00 | February 13, 2019 19:45 | 5h 45m | 1,407 | 2,518 |
| 3 | July 24, 2019 04:15 | July 25, 2019 00:45 | 20h 30m | 833 | 4,756 |
| 4 | December 18, 2019 18:00 | December 18, 2019 19:15 | 1h 15m | 665 | 168 |
| 5 | May 14, 2019 04:30 | May 14, 2019 06:00 | 1h 30m | 661 | 835 |
| 6 | October 21, 2019 17:15 | October 22, 2019 00:15 | 7h | 579 | 2,806 |
| 7 | May 13, 2019 17:15 | May 13, 2019 21:15 | 4h | 576 | 727 |
| 8 | April 10, 2019 18:15 | April 10, 2019 21:30 | 3h 15m | 575 | 578 |
| 9 | October 28, 2019 23:00 | October 29, 2019 07:15 | 8h 15m | 511 | 581 |
| 10 | September 22, 2019 21:15 | September 22, 2019 23:15 | 2h | 499 | 595 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 18 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 Benewah County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 0.89 | 2.2 hrs | 0.81 |
| Inland Power & Light Company | 2018 | 3.3 hrs | 1.55 | 3.3 hrs | 1.55 |
| Clearwater Power Company | 2018 | 16.6 hrs | 3.16 | 12.0 hrs | 2.91 |
| Kootenai Electric Cooperative | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 1.20 | 3.4 hrs | 1.20 |
| Avista Corp,avista | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 92% of Idaho's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/idaho/benewah-county