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Who serves Benewah County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Avista and Inland Power & Light, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Clearwater Power Company, Kootenai Electric Cooperative and City of Plummer also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Benewah County, ID
Last significant outage: Sep 1, 2026 — peaked at 1,707 customers, restored in ~10.7 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 2 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 5.9 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 18, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Benewah County, ID
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
178 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
4 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in winter.
That is longer than the Idaho norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~8,756 customers out in November 2015, restored after about 42.8 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2020.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Benewah County include St. Maries, Plummer, Tensed, De Smet, Fernwood and Parkline. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Benewah County, ID?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Benewah include Avista, Inland Power & Light, Clearwater Power Company and others — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
