Power outages in Idaho, by utility
Across 9 Idaho utilities that reported to the federal government, the median customer went without power for 2.9 hours in 2025 — that is 1.0× better than the national median. Idaho ranks #24 of 41 states for outage time, worst first.
- Median utility
- 2.9 hrs
- typical customer
- Worst utility
- 16.2 hrs
- Avista Corp
- Best utility
- 0.1 hrs
- Fall River Rural Elec Coop Inc
- Utilities reporting
- 9
- of 752 nationwide
Every reporting Idaho utility, worst outage time first
| # | Utility | Outage time/yr | Outages/yr | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avista CorpInvestor Owned | 16.2 hrs973 min | 1.9 | 5.5× worse |
| 2 | Kootenai Electric CooperativeCooperative | 6.1 hrs369 min | 1.4 | 2.1× worse |
| 3 | Salmon River Electric Coop IncCooperative | 5.9 hrs356 min | 3.8 | 2.0× worse |
| 4 | United Electric Co-op, Inc - (ID)Cooperative | 3.8 hrs226 min | 1.5 | 1.3× worse |
| 5 | Idaho Power CoInvestor Owned | 2.8 hrs171 min | 1.0 | 1.0× better |
| 6 | PacifiCorpInvestor Owned | 2.4 hrs146 min | 1.2 | 1.2× better |
| 7 | City of Idaho Falls - (ID)Municipal | 0.8 hrs51 min | 0.5 | 3.5× better |
| 8 | Missoula Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 0.1 hrs8 min | 0.1 | 22.8× better |
| 9 | Fall River Rural Elec Coop IncCooperative | 0.1 hrs7 min | 0.1 | 24.4× better |
Outage time is SAIDI: the average minutes a customer went without power across the year, storms and major events included. Outages/yr is SAIFI. The US median across all reporting utilities is 3 hours (178 minutes).
What these numbers do and do not say
SAIDI counts the minutes an average customer spent without power over the year, including storms and other major events. We rank on the figure that includes them, because excluding storms would describe a year nobody actually lived through.
Utilities report these numbers themselves, and smaller co-ops and municipal systems often serve rural territory where a single line fault affects a large share of customers. A high number is not automatically mismanagement — but it is still the power you did not have.
Only 9 utilities in Idaho reported, so this ranking covers part of the state rather than all of it. Utilities that filed no reliability data are left out entirely rather than counted as zero.