Fremont County, Idaho Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Fremont County, Idaho had 1 major outage from 2017 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.75 times the US outage time per person and 1.55 times the Idaho rate. It ranks 12 of 35 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

0.1major outages per year

1 of 7years with a major outage

8 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Janhardest months

December and January made up 40% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 8, 2018, reached 5,014 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 4.5 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
2017	6,583	7	0
2018	44,080	28	0
2019	14,660	21	0
2020	26,046	19	0
2021	40,401	27	0
2022	30,850	23	1
2023	21,686	24	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
Dec 8, 2018	4.5	5,014	20,427
Dec 22, 2022	8.2	2,344	15,242
Jan 24, 2020	3.0	7,317	14,473
Jan 13, 2023	2.8	2,448	6,732
Sep 22, 2021	3.2	2,087	5,674

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.