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Who serves Kootenai 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. Kootenai Electric Cooperative and Northern Lights 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 — Kootenai County, ID
Last significant outage: Sep 2, 2026 — peaked at 808 customers, restored in ~4.7 hr (weather alert).
Across the 11 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.8 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 9, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Kootenai County, ID
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
420 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
5 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the Idaho norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~27,135 customers out in November 2015, restored after about 4.9 days. 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.
Cities we track in Kootenai County
Communities in Kootenai County include Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls, Hayden, Rathdrum, Dalton Gardens, Spirit Lake, Hauser and Athol. 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 Kootenai County, ID?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Kootenai include Avista, Inland Power & Light, Kootenai Electric Cooperative 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.
