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2023 Gem County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Gem County, ID went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 9,124 customer-hours (Idaho average 2.4 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 43 Idaho counties and 2664th 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 Gem 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 26, 2023 11:30 | October 26, 2023 19:00 | 7h 30m | 1,595 | 704 |
| 2 | September 4, 2023 16:45 | September 4, 2023 19:45 | 3h | 821 | 863 |
| 3 | April 24, 2023 14:45 | April 24, 2023 15:45 | 1h | 816 | 816 |
| 4 | May 31, 2023 22:45 | May 31, 2023 23:45 | 1h | 673 | 673 |
| 5 | June 14, 2023 05:15 | June 14, 2023 06:00 | 45m | 530 | 398 |
| 6 | August 4, 2023 18:30 | August 4, 2023 21:00 | 2h 30m | 513 | 1,283 |
| 7 | September 7, 2023 16:30 | September 7, 2023 17:45 | 1h 15m | 466 | 475 |
| 8 | February 13, 2023 06:00 | February 13, 2023 06:30 | 30m | 337 | 169 |
| 9 | August 21, 2023 12:00 | August 21, 2023 13:15 | 1h 15m | 226 | 283 |
| 10 | December 8, 2023 16:00 | December 8, 2023 18:30 | 2h 30m | 158 | 395 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 16 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| 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 n/a of Idaho's customers in 2023; 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, 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/gem-county