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2025 Benewah County, ID Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Benewah County, ID went without power for an average of 67.6 hours, a total of 315K customer-hours (Idaho average 5.6 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 43 Idaho counties and 49th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with ID, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Idaho customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benewah County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 17, 2025 12:45 | December 24, 2025 20:45 | 7d 8h | 5,326 | 249K |
| 2 | March 24, 2025 09:30 | March 24, 2025 16:15 | 6h 45m | 1,976 | 5,789 |
| 3 | February 1, 2025 10:30 | February 1, 2025 12:15 | 1h 45m | 1,966 | 3,441 |
| 4 | August 7, 2025 13:00 | August 7, 2025 18:45 | 5h 45m | 1,702 | 7,579 |
| 5 | December 26, 2025 21:15 | December 27, 2025 03:15 | 6h | 1,697 | 10K |
| 6 | October 1, 2025 21:15 | October 2, 2025 00:00 | 2h 45m | 1,693 | 4,638 |
| 7 | January 13, 2025 13:00 | January 13, 2025 18:30 | 5h 30m | 1,666 | 5,615 |
| 8 | February 24, 2025 01:00 | February 24, 2025 08:30 | 7h 30m | 1,666 | 8,491 |
| 9 | December 9, 2025 01:15 | December 10, 2025 01:15 | 1d | 1,197 | 7,037 |
| 10 | November 7, 2025 09:00 | November 7, 2025 18:15 | 9h 15m | 699 | 1,635 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 24 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/idaho/benewah-county