Blaine County, Idaho Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Blaine County, Idaho had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.73 times the US outage time per person and 1.51 times the Idaho rate. It ranks 14 of 35 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

30 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 41% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 29, 2022, reached 8,916 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 9.2 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	392	1	0
2016	6,092	6	0
2017	35,545	23	2
2018	19,172	16	0
2019	37,655	16	1
2020	108,058	24	2
2021	20,933	16	0
2022	109,153	25	1
2023	67,357	23	0

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Sep 29, 2022	9.2	8,916	66,647
Oct 13, 2020	8.0	8,013	56,690
May 5, 2023	3.0	9,160	26,439
Oct 11, 2023	2.0	9,582	16,330
Jan 1, 2020	13.2	2,105	15,430

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.