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2022 Butte County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Butte County, ID went without power for an average of 193.2 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Idaho average 3.0 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 43 Idaho counties and 10th 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 Butte 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 | October 19, 2022 16:45 | October 19, 2022 17:30 | 45m | 652 | 326 |
| 2 | March 8, 2022 21:45 | March 8, 2022 22:15 | 30m | 402 | 105 |
| 3 | December 7, 2022 15:00 | December 7, 2022 18:30 | 3h 30m | 393 | 1,373 |
| 4 | November 7, 2022 19:30 | November 8, 2022 10:15 | 14h 45m | 392 | 4,765 |
| 5 | May 6, 2022 07:15 | May 6, 2022 13:45 | 6h 30m | 314 | 1,964 |
| 6 | May 23, 2022 09:15 | May 23, 2022 11:00 | 1h 45m | 314 | 550 |
| 7 | March 5, 2022 08:15 | March 5, 2022 12:00 | 3h 45m | 313 | 1,096 |
| 8 | March 8, 2022 08:00 | March 8, 2022 16:00 | 8h | 313 | 2,054 |
| 9 | March 29, 2022 09:45 | March 29, 2022 16:15 | 6h 30m | 313 | 1,958 |
| 10 | April 24, 2022 10:30 | April 24, 2022 14:45 | 4h 15m | 313 | 718 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 10 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Butte 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PacifiCorp | 2022 | 5.2 hrs | 1.58 | 1.8 hrs | 1.11 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lost River Electric Coop 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 91% of Idaho's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 81 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. Butte County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butte 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/butte-county