Elmore County, Idaho Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Elmore County, Idaho had 3 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.48 times the US outage time per person and 1.00 times the Idaho rate. It ranks 16 of 35 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

19 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 5, 2017, reached 6,947 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 19.0 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	20,303	7	0
2016	6,436	13	0
2017	87,566	47	2
2018	24,674	25	1
2019	33,099	25	0
2020	26,223	20	0
2021	33,398	23	0
2022	46,592	46	0
2023	37,628	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
Jun 5, 2017	19.0	6,947	39,195
Aug 11, 2015	7.8	3,988	16,244
Mar 29, 2021	6.2	4,838	12,818
Jul 23, 2019	2.8	5,002	10,465
Nov 5, 2023	1.2	7,869	6,641

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.