When will the power be back in Gem County, ID?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Gem County, ID right now.
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Who serves Gem County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Idaho Power, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. This is the utility we track here, not necessarily the only one serving it — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Gem County, ID
Last significant outage: Jul 28, 2026 — peaked at 567 customers, restored in ~3.3 hr (weather alert).
Across the 2 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 23, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Gem County, ID
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
108 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~1.5 hr (median).
That is shorter than the Idaho norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~11,910 customers out in November 2024, restored after about 5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2024.
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 Gem County include Emmett, Emmett Bench, Emmett Valley, Letha and Sweet. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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