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Who serves Clearwater County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Avista, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Clearwater Power Company also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Clearwater County, ID
Last significant outage: Aug 29, 2026 — peaked at 293 customers, restored in ~6.3 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 10 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 6.2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 10, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Clearwater County, ID
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
261 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
4.5 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: ~5,580 customers out in August 2023, restored after about 18.5 hr.
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 Clearwater County include Orofino, Pierce, Elk River, Nez Perce, Pierce-Headquarters and Weippe. 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 Clearwater County, ID?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Clearwater include Avista and Clearwater Power Company — 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.
