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2020 Idaho County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Idaho County, ID went without power for an average of 11.7 hours, a total of 116K customer-hours (Idaho average 5.1 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 44 Idaho counties and 679th 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 Idaho 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 | February 23, 2020 21:45 | February 24, 2020 14:00 | 16h 15m | 3,520 | 9,373 |
| 2 | November 27, 2020 09:00 | November 27, 2020 20:45 | 11h 45m | 1,464 | 12K |
| 3 | May 20, 2020 02:30 | May 20, 2020 12:30 | 10h | 1,244 | 9,830 |
| 4 | November 17, 2020 01:00 | November 17, 2020 06:00 | 5h | 1,073 | 5,084 |
| 5 | July 15, 2020 23:15 | July 15, 2020 23:45 | 30m | 1,009 | 505 |
| 6 | February 6, 2020 03:30 | February 6, 2020 21:30 | 18h | 737 | 7,461 |
| 7 | November 8, 2020 08:30 | November 9, 2020 02:15 | 17h 45m | 708 | 9,885 |
| 8 | August 17, 2020 22:30 | August 19, 2020 04:00 | 1d 5h | 693 | 14K |
| 9 | October 24, 2020 05:15 | October 25, 2020 18:00 | 1d 12h | 684 | 605 |
| 10 | May 30, 2020 21:45 | May 31, 2020 14:45 | 17h | 683 | 2,058 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 29 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 Idaho 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 |
| 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 |
| Missoula Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 6.0 hrs | 2.00 | 6.0 hrs | 2.00 |
| Avista Corp,avista | - | - | - | - | - |
| Idaho County L&P Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,920 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. Idaho County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Idaho 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/idaho-county