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2020 Caribou County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Caribou County, ID went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 9,450 customer-hours (Idaho average 5.1 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 44 Idaho counties and 2015th 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 Caribou 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 | July 9, 2020 23:00 | July 10, 2020 05:45 | 6h 45m | 1,072 | 1,078 |
| 2 | June 23, 2020 15:15 | June 24, 2020 01:30 | 10h 15m | 471 | 1,908 |
| 3 | August 16, 2020 11:45 | August 16, 2020 12:45 | 1h | 465 | 350 |
| 4 | March 15, 2020 03:45 | March 15, 2020 17:15 | 13h 30m | 232 | 744 |
| 5 | April 16, 2020 00:30 | April 16, 2020 05:15 | 4h 45m | 232 | 1,020 |
| 6 | November 13, 2020 16:00 | November 13, 2020 16:30 | 30m | 222 | 57 |
| 7 | May 23, 2020 14:00 | May 23, 2020 19:00 | 5h | 188 | 255 |
| 8 | July 8, 2020 20:15 | July 8, 2020 22:00 | 1h 45m | 184 | 184 |
| 9 | September 24, 2020 16:15 | September 24, 2020 22:30 | 6h 15m | 183 | 1,139 |
| 10 | May 9, 2020 04:30 | May 9, 2020 07:30 | 3h | 130 | 136 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 13 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 Caribou 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PacifiCorp | 2020 | 6.8 hrs | 1.88 | 2.0 hrs | 1.22 |
| Lower Valley Energy Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Soda Springs - (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 ÷ 3,639 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. Caribou County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Caribou 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/caribou-county