Power Out Map
– 0% of Payette out 0 customers out in Idaho

Power outage history

Payette County Idaho

1.7hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

33rd most of 35 in Idaho 74% below the national median

Worst outage on record Sep 16, 2024 62% of customers out · 90% back in 3.5 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 1.7h / yr State average 3.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.2 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 1hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 17hours Jun 23, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 3% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 2.6 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 11,846 ORNL customer model · 5 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Payette's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.6 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Payette, hours without power per customer

PayetteUS median countyIdaho average
0 2 4 6 8 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 2.6 ’21 1.1 ’22 1.1 ’23 2.5 ’24 1.5 ’25 US 6.6 ID 3.7

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Sep 16, 2024 No storm report 7,320 62% 8.2 h 3.5 h 13k
Jun 3, 2021 No storm report 2,667 23% 4.5 h 2.5 h 5.1k
May 15, 2019 No storm report 1,852 16% 6.2 h 5.8 h 4.8k
Jan 16, 2020 No storm report 4,372 37% 3.0 h 30 min 4.2k
Jul 7, 2018 No storm report 1,801 15% 3.8 h 3.8 h 4.1k
Jan 6, 2017 No storm report 2,101 18% 3.5 h 3.5 h 4.1k
Aug 4, 2021 No storm report 1,003 8% 7.2 h 4.2 h 3.7k
Jun 23, 2021 No storm report 265 2% 17 h – 3.5k
Oct 26, 2023 No storm report 5,060 43% 48 min – 3.4k
May 12, 2024 No storm report 2,337 20% 1.8 h 1.8 h 3.2k
Jul 25, 2018 No storm report 1,568 13% 2.5 h 12 h 2.9k
Aug 6, 2017 No storm report 501 4% 5.5 h – 2.7k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +2h 90% by +4h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Payette from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 97%
  • Thunderstorms 1.6%
  • Winter storm 1.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Payette

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Idaho territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Idaho Power Co Investor Owned 171 141 1.03 11.8 540k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Idaho

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Idaho counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 11,846 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →