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2020 Kootenai County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Kootenai County, ID went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 248K customer-hours (Idaho average 5.1 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 44 Idaho counties and 2095th 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 Kootenai 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 14:30 | September 13, 2020 06:30 | 5d 16h | 6,314 | 68K |
| 2 | January 31, 2020 23:30 | February 2, 2020 16:15 | 1d 16h | 5,858 | 36K |
| 3 | October 23, 2020 21:15 | October 27, 2020 02:15 | 3d 5h | 3,169 | 48K |
| 4 | July 23, 2020 18:30 | July 24, 2020 01:45 | 7h 15m | 2,972 | 3,289 |
| 5 | September 26, 2020 03:00 | September 26, 2020 06:45 | 3h 45m | 2,913 | 8,539 |
| 6 | October 2, 2020 04:15 | October 2, 2020 08:45 | 4h 30m | 2,709 | 3,411 |
| 7 | May 26, 2020 15:00 | May 27, 2020 00:00 | 9h | 2,660 | 1,012 |
| 8 | January 29, 2020 19:30 | January 30, 2020 02:30 | 7h | 2,301 | 597 |
| 9 | August 11, 2020 11:45 | August 11, 2020 12:00 | 15m | 2,032 | 508 |
| 10 | June 27, 2020 00:00 | June 27, 2020 03:30 | 3h 30m | 1,775 | 2,667 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 64 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Kootenai 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 |
| Inland Power & Light Company | 2020 | 13.3 hrs | 1.97 | 3.9 hrs | 1.31 |
| Kootenai Electric Cooperative | 2020 | 14.9 hrs | 2.92 | 3.1 hrs | 1.78 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Avista Corp,avista | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northern Lights, 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 ÷ 103,287 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. Kootenai County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kootenai 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/kootenai-county