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2022 Benewah County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Benewah County, ID went without power for an average of 17.7 hours, a total of 83K customer-hours (Idaho average 3.0 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 43 Idaho counties and 384th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with ID, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Idaho customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benewah County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 4, 2022 17:15 | November 28, 2022 16:15 | 23d 23h | 2,430 | 46K |
| 2 | March 27, 2022 15:15 | March 28, 2022 02:30 | 11h 15m | 1,527 | 17K |
| 3 | February 28, 2022 15:45 | February 28, 2022 23:15 | 7h 30m | 1,068 | 6,554 |
| 4 | May 5, 2022 23:45 | May 6, 2022 03:45 | 4h | 753 | 1,256 |
| 5 | May 15, 2022 04:45 | May 15, 2022 14:30 | 9h 45m | 369 | 3,598 |
| 6 | April 4, 2022 20:45 | April 4, 2022 21:45 | 1h | 263 | 134 |
| 7 | September 14, 2022 16:15 | September 14, 2022 17:00 | 45m | 260 | 195 |
| 8 | August 13, 2022 07:30 | August 13, 2022 09:15 | 1h 45m | 259 | 453 |
| 9 | May 28, 2022 22:15 | May 29, 2022 05:45 | 7h 30m | 208 | 790 |
| 10 | December 14, 2022 19:15 | December 14, 2022 22:15 | 3h | 170 | 469 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 12 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 Benewah County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 3.6 hrs | 1.15 | 2.5 hrs | 0.96 |
| Inland Power & Light Company | 2022 | 5.4 hrs | 1.46 | 3.4 hrs | 1.22 |
| Clearwater Power Company | 2018 | 16.6 hrs | 3.16 | 12.0 hrs | 2.91 |
| Kootenai Electric Cooperative | 2022 | 5.7 hrs | 1.73 | 3.4 hrs | 1.23 |
| Avista Corp,avista | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Plummer - (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 91% of Idaho's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,666 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. Benewah County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benewah County, ID annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/idaho/benewah-county