Kootenai County, Idaho Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Kootenai County, Idaho had 15 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.75 times the US outage time per person and 1.54 times the Idaho rate. It ranks 12 of 35 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.7major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

132 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Novhardest months

January and November made up 71% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 13, 2021, reached 24,557 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 132.5 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
2015	984,380	39	4
2016	24,142	24	0
2017	92,957	36	2
2018	39,268	31	0
2019	84,859	45	0
2020	200,293	50	3
2021	1,412,121	50	4
2022	157,323	41	2
2023	92,156	37	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
Jan 13, 2021	132.5	24,557	1,132,052
Nov 19, 2015	69.2	22,218	432,418
Nov 18, 2015	8.5	26,543	127,540
Dec 23, 2015	80.8	6,138	120,926
Mar 29, 2021	26.2	8,357	84,730

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.