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2020 Gem County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Gem County, ID went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (Idaho average 5.1 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 44 Idaho counties and 1725th 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 Gem 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 6, 2020 23:45 | October 7, 2020 01:30 | 1h 45m | 7,212 | 11K |
| 2 | July 4, 2020 05:15 | July 4, 2020 07:15 | 2h | 4,501 | 8,340 |
| 3 | September 8, 2020 03:30 | September 8, 2020 07:15 | 3h 45m | 1,959 | 3,555 |
| 4 | July 4, 2020 01:45 | July 4, 2020 02:30 | 45m | 977 | 733 |
| 5 | January 26, 2020 17:15 | January 26, 2020 20:45 | 3h 30m | 498 | 1,648 |
| 6 | June 6, 2020 04:45 | June 6, 2020 07:00 | 2h 15m | 432 | 972 |
| 7 | May 14, 2020 23:30 | May 15, 2020 00:30 | 1h | 430 | 430 |
| 8 | August 25, 2020 19:30 | August 25, 2020 21:00 | 1h 30m | 208 | 236 |
| 9 | September 8, 2020 16:15 | September 8, 2020 17:30 | 1h 15m | 200 | 154 |
| 10 | October 15, 2020 20:00 | October 15, 2020 21:45 | 1h 45m | 169 | 227 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 15 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Gem 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho Power Co | 2020 | 3.3 hrs | 1.10 | 2.7 hrs | 1.00 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 8,691 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. Gem County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gem 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/gem-county