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2023 Benewah County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Benewah County, ID went without power for an average of 13.5 hours, a total of 63K customer-hours (Idaho average 2.4 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 43 Idaho counties and 643rd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with ID, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Idaho customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benewah County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 29, 2023 22:45 | July 30, 2023 03:00 | 4h 15m | 3,193 | 12K |
| 2 | August 19, 2023 08:30 | August 19, 2023 12:30 | 4h | 3,054 | 12K |
| 3 | August 18, 2023 19:30 | August 19, 2023 04:00 | 8h 30m | 3,035 | 1,457 |
| 4 | September 22, 2023 20:30 | September 23, 2023 03:45 | 7h 15m | 1,689 | 9,715 |
| 5 | May 21, 2023 15:00 | May 21, 2023 22:30 | 7h 30m | 1,580 | 9,087 |
| 6 | November 30, 2023 18:15 | November 30, 2023 22:00 | 3h 45m | 656 | 2,460 |
| 7 | December 29, 2023 21:15 | December 29, 2023 22:00 | 45m | 656 | 346 |
| 8 | December 16, 2023 20:30 | December 17, 2023 01:00 | 4h 30m | 494 | 2,100 |
| 9 | July 17, 2023 20:15 | July 18, 2023 00:15 | 4h | 489 | 522 |
| 10 | June 27, 2023 18:45 | June 27, 2023 19:00 | 15m | 482 | 121 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 28 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 Benewah County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 2.5 hrs | 0.90 | 2.1 hrs | 0.83 |
| Inland Power & Light Company | 2023 | 3.6 hrs | 1.20 | 3.4 hrs | 1.09 |
| Clearwater Power Company | 2018 | 16.6 hrs | 3.16 | 12.0 hrs | 2.91 |
| Kootenai Electric Cooperative | 2023 | 2.2 hrs | 1.47 | 1.7 hrs | 1.22 |
| 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 n/a of Idaho's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/idaho/benewah-county