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2020 Clearwater County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Clearwater County, ID went without power for an average of 35.7 hours, a total of 142K customer-hours (Idaho average 5.1 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 44 Idaho counties and 227th 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 Clearwater 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 17:45 | September 12, 2020 00:00 | 4d 6h | 2,277 | 69K |
| 2 | September 14, 2020 13:45 | September 15, 2020 14:15 | 1d | 1,317 | 24K |
| 3 | October 23, 2020 23:45 | October 26, 2020 03:30 | 2d 3h | 710 | 11K |
| 4 | July 10, 2020 14:30 | July 13, 2020 07:15 | 2d 16h | 671 | 2,021 |
| 5 | October 4, 2020 18:00 | October 4, 2020 22:15 | 4h 15m | 669 | 2,512 |
| 6 | October 8, 2020 16:15 | October 8, 2020 18:15 | 2h | 510 | 1,020 |
| 7 | May 18, 2020 00:30 | May 18, 2020 02:00 | 1h 30m | 416 | 580 |
| 8 | September 2, 2020 16:30 | September 2, 2020 22:15 | 5h 45m | 386 | 300 |
| 9 | May 31, 2020 03:00 | May 31, 2020 07:30 | 4h 30m | 382 | 579 |
| 10 | January 22, 2020 21:45 | January 23, 2020 04:30 | 6h 45m | 380 | 1,305 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 32 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 Clearwater 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 |
| Clearwater Power Company | 2018 | 16.6 hrs | 3.16 | 12.0 hrs | 2.91 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Avista Corp,avista | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 3,978 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. Clearwater County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clearwater 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/clearwater-county