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2020 Benewah County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Benewah County, ID went without power for an average of 23.6 hours, a total of 110K customer-hours (Idaho average 5.1 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 44 Idaho counties and 365th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with ID, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Idaho customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benewah County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 23, 2020 22:15 | October 27, 2020 21:00 | 3d 22h | 2,500 | 38K |
| 2 | January 10, 2020 14:00 | January 15, 2020 16:45 | 5d 2h | 1,485 | 14K |
| 3 | September 7, 2020 16:30 | September 13, 2020 06:30 | 5d 14h | 1,054 | 20K |
| 4 | October 13, 2020 22:00 | October 14, 2020 19:30 | 21h 30m | 1,048 | 3,282 |
| 5 | November 18, 2020 23:15 | November 19, 2020 02:15 | 3h | 1,021 | 2,797 |
| 6 | August 3, 2020 22:15 | August 4, 2020 00:45 | 2h 30m | 991 | 1,983 |
| 7 | April 10, 2020 16:30 | April 10, 2020 17:30 | 1h | 667 | 519 |
| 8 | April 23, 2020 06:00 | April 23, 2020 08:15 | 2h 15m | 667 | 1,335 |
| 9 | November 9, 2020 16:45 | November 9, 2020 20:00 | 3h 15m | 667 | 502 |
| 10 | June 27, 2020 00:00 | June 27, 2020 03:30 | 3h 30m | 614 | 925 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 30 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 5.1 hrs | 1.56 | 2.2 hrs | 0.91 |
| Inland Power & Light Company | 2020 | 13.3 hrs | 1.97 | 3.9 hrs | 1.31 |
| Clearwater Power Company | 2018 | 16.6 hrs | 3.16 | 12.0 hrs | 2.91 |
| Kootenai Electric Cooperative | 2020 | 14.9 hrs | 2.92 | 3.1 hrs | 1.78 |
| 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 95% of Idaho's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/idaho/benewah-county