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2024 Gem County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Gem County, ID went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (Idaho average 4.6 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 43 Idaho counties and 1669th 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 Gem 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 | November 18, 2024 11:00 | November 18, 2024 11:15 | 15m | 11,910 | 2,978 |
| 2 | April 9, 2024 12:45 | April 9, 2024 13:00 | 15m | 7,774 | 1,944 |
| 3 | June 25, 2024 15:30 | June 25, 2024 18:45 | 3h 15m | 4,677 | 6,254 |
| 4 | May 5, 2024 06:15 | May 5, 2024 08:30 | 2h 15m | 3,909 | 5,891 |
| 5 | May 29, 2024 01:00 | May 29, 2024 03:30 | 2h 30m | 2,624 | 1,506 |
| 6 | May 7, 2024 17:00 | May 7, 2024 18:45 | 1h 45m | 1,262 | 654 |
| 7 | September 17, 2024 02:45 | September 17, 2024 12:15 | 9h 30m | 1,060 | 1,949 |
| 8 | February 26, 2024 16:15 | February 26, 2024 17:30 | 1h 15m | 1,000 | 784 |
| 9 | November 4, 2024 14:15 | November 4, 2024 14:45 | 30m | 898 | 440 |
| 10 | November 4, 2024 08:00 | November 4, 2024 11:00 | 3h | 860 | 2,580 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 29 reached 100+ customers, 8 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho Power Co | 2024 | 6.0 hrs | 1.97 | 5.0 hrs | 1.84 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/gem-county