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2024 Benewah County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Benewah County, ID went without power for an average of 22.8 hours, a total of 106K customer-hours (Idaho average 4.6 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 43 Idaho counties and 439th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with ID, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Idaho customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benewah County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 25, 2024 23:30 | October 4, 2024 00:30 | 8d 1h | 1,827 | 19K |
| 2 | September 11, 2024 14:45 | September 12, 2024 09:45 | 19h | 1,647 | 30K |
| 3 | August 21, 2024 12:30 | August 21, 2024 17:15 | 4h 45m | 1,636 | 6,194 |
| 4 | August 24, 2024 00:45 | August 24, 2024 09:30 | 8h 45m | 1,634 | 13K |
| 5 | November 4, 2024 16:30 | November 4, 2024 22:15 | 5h 45m | 1,167 | 2,101 |
| 6 | January 9, 2024 20:00 | January 10, 2024 03:30 | 7h 30m | 1,147 | 2,691 |
| 7 | June 3, 2024 09:00 | June 3, 2024 22:30 | 13h 30m | 1,000 | 7,328 |
| 8 | January 9, 2024 12:00 | January 9, 2024 19:15 | 7h 15m | 883 | 3,223 |
| 9 | May 20, 2024 15:30 | May 21, 2024 03:45 | 12h 15m | 753 | 1,141 |
| 10 | December 18, 2024 18:15 | December 19, 2024 09:45 | 15h 30m | 411 | 1,424 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 27 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 | 2.3 hrs | 0.94 |
| Inland Power & Light Company | 2024 | 6.4 hrs | 1.20 | 4.6 hrs | 1.09 |
| Clearwater Power Company | 2018 | 16.6 hrs | 3.16 | 12.0 hrs | 2.91 |
| Kootenai Electric Cooperative | 2024 | 3.1 hrs | 1.17 | 2.1 hrs | 0.81 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/idaho/benewah-county