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2022 Gem County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Gem County, ID went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Idaho average 3.0 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 43 Idaho counties and 1837th 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 Gem 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 | April 7, 2022 13:45 | April 7, 2022 15:00 | 1h 15m | 7,530 | 8,244 |
| 2 | August 6, 2022 06:30 | August 6, 2022 08:00 | 1h 30m | 5,533 | 8,199 |
| 3 | May 7, 2022 07:00 | May 7, 2022 12:30 | 5h 30m | 779 | 2,310 |
| 4 | January 4, 2022 05:30 | January 4, 2022 08:00 | 2h 30m | 690 | 1,725 |
| 5 | April 16, 2022 14:15 | April 16, 2022 15:00 | 45m | 658 | 494 |
| 6 | May 2, 2022 20:00 | May 2, 2022 21:45 | 1h 45m | 658 | 1,152 |
| 7 | December 12, 2022 10:00 | December 12, 2022 18:15 | 8h 15m | 569 | 2,662 |
| 8 | May 12, 2022 12:15 | May 12, 2022 19:45 | 7h 30m | 517 | 672 |
| 9 | November 7, 2022 12:30 | November 7, 2022 13:30 | 1h | 481 | 153 |
| 10 | April 17, 2022 17:45 | April 17, 2022 19:15 | 1h 30m | 471 | 707 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 17 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho Power Co | 2022 | 2.3 hrs | 0.98 | 2.3 hrs | 0.97 |
| 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 91% of Idaho's customers in 2022; 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, 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/gem-county