City of Idaho Falls, ID
City of Idaho Falls's outage record
Outages at City of Idaho Falls are uncommon. Idaho customers on this grid saw 0.5 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 51 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 84% less outage time than the Idaho state average of 5.4 hours a year.
How long a single City of Idaho Falls outage runs
Outages here typically run short, about 1.8 hours before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for City of Idaho Falls
Most City of Idaho Falls customers keep power almost all year. Serving 33,875 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How City of Idaho Falls's record was measured
City of Idaho Falls filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Idaho territory, serving 33,875 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Idaho as a whole, across every utility that filed: Idaho's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.