Jerome County, Idaho Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Jerome County, Idaho had 2 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.46 times the US outage time per person and 0.95 times the Idaho rate. It ranks 17 of 35 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

1 of 9years with a major outage

9 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Febhardest months

July and February made up 31% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 15, 2017, reached 8,971 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 5.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	1,338	5	0
2016	15,970	19	0
2017	86,459	22	0
2018	17,176	23	0
2019	26,790	22	0
2020	25,893	23	0
2021	15,433	17	2
2022	45,145	39	0
2023	28,858	21	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
Jul 15, 2017	5.2	8,971	31,073
Feb 23, 2017	7.0	3,633	21,666
Jan 8, 2017	3.0	8,876	12,356
Nov 24, 2019	2.8	5,017	10,296
Oct 30, 2017	2.5	3,649	9,122

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.