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2023 Blaine County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Blaine County, ID went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 78K customer-hours (Idaho average 2.4 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 43 Idaho counties and 1210th 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 Blaine 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 | October 11, 2023 04:15 | October 11, 2023 06:15 | 2h | 9,582 | 16K |
| 2 | May 5, 2023 05:15 | May 5, 2023 08:15 | 3h | 9,160 | 26K |
| 3 | May 19, 2023 21:00 | May 19, 2023 22:45 | 1h 45m | 3,489 | 6,106 |
| 4 | May 6, 2023 22:15 | May 7, 2023 05:00 | 6h 45m | 1,655 | 2,174 |
| 5 | May 4, 2023 23:00 | May 5, 2023 00:30 | 1h 30m | 1,653 | 2,480 |
| 6 | April 26, 2023 21:30 | April 27, 2023 02:45 | 5h 15m | 933 | 1,913 |
| 7 | September 10, 2023 12:00 | September 10, 2023 12:15 | 15m | 532 | 133 |
| 8 | December 13, 2023 22:30 | December 14, 2023 04:00 | 5h 30m | 532 | 2,807 |
| 9 | June 17, 2023 07:00 | June 17, 2023 08:45 | 1h 45m | 528 | 805 |
| 10 | March 25, 2023 02:45 | March 25, 2023 04:30 | 1h 45m | 523 | 915 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 30 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 Blaine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho Power Co | 2023 | 2.5 hrs | 1.21 | 2.4 hrs | 1.16 |
| Salmon River Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 8.9 hrs | 2.55 | 8.9 hrs | 2.55 |
| 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 n/a of Idaho's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,965 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. Blaine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blaine 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/blaine-county