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2020 Boundary County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Boundary County, ID went without power for an average of 29.3 hours, a total of 125K customer-hours (Idaho average 5.1 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 44 Idaho counties and 286th 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 Boundary 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 | September 7, 2020 13:45 | September 12, 2020 03:30 | 4d 13h | 3,517 | 49K |
| 2 | March 14, 2020 02:45 | March 16, 2020 04:00 | 2d 1h | 3,490 | 23K |
| 3 | December 6, 2020 21:00 | December 7, 2020 09:15 | 12h 15m | 3,243 | 29K |
| 4 | June 26, 2020 14:15 | June 26, 2020 18:30 | 4h 15m | 3,133 | 1,612 |
| 5 | December 18, 2020 23:00 | December 19, 2020 00:30 | 1h 30m | 1,287 | 966 |
| 6 | June 6, 2020 03:30 | June 6, 2020 06:00 | 2h 30m | 772 | 1,615 |
| 7 | June 24, 2020 23:00 | June 25, 2020 03:00 | 4h | 368 | 848 |
| 8 | March 4, 2020 13:15 | March 4, 2020 21:45 | 8h 30m | 268 | 1,405 |
| 9 | August 26, 2020 18:30 | August 26, 2020 20:30 | 2h | 266 | 127 |
| 10 | January 1, 2020 00:30 | January 1, 2020 08:00 | 7h 30m | 258 | 1,658 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 23 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 Boundary 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 95% of Idaho's customers in 2020; 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, 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/idaho/boundary-county