12/22/2025
UPDATE: To Clearwater Power members Dec. 21, 7 a.m.
Power has been restored to 8,000+ members. 2,800 members currently remain without power and have been without power since early morning on Tuesday, Dec. 16. We understand the importance of power in our lives and appreciate the patience of Clearwater Power members.
The storm that hit our region brought 80+ mile-per-hour wind gusts, toppling trees, breaking cross arms and poles, and bringing down miles of line. Significant damage to equipment, substations and every main distribution line was sustained, impacting our entire grid, all at once.
Clearwater Power serves 3 to 4 members per mile of power line along more than 3,000 miles of lines and other infrastructure webbing out across the most rural parts of our counties. Your cooperative extends into 11 counties across 3 states covering 5,000 square miles.
With so many different outages at once and such significant damage to the entire grid, crews are working across the service territory and in some instances were unable to even access areas to assess damage. We know members need their power and will continue working until power is fully restored.
The Clearwater Power Outage Map reflects the most up-to-date outage information. While the Outage Map offers the best estimates for power restoration, they are estimates and are adjusted as we continue to patrol lines, assess damage and make needed repairs.
Your specific time of restoration will depend on the amount of repairs needed between the substation and your home or business.
We have more than doubled our line crew workforce with additional contracted and cooperative line crews. They join our cooperative linemen who continue to methodically restore power.
Linemen, field engineers and vegetation management crews are working in the following locations today:
Crews continue working north from the Juliaetta substation on lines feeding Lenore, Myrtle and nearby areas
Troy, Oregon area
East of Genesee
Dent
Orofino Golf Course toward Nezperce
Crows Bench and Upper Fords Creek
Freeman Creek
Flannigan Creek, Tensed
Emida
Weippe area
Cedar Ridge
Clearwater Power members can report outages using SmartHub or by calling 208-743-1501.
Please always call 208-743-1501 with safety concerns. We take calls 24/7 and it ensures your message is received, escalated as needed and makes it to the appropriate folks.
As we work to restore power, crews focus on danger lines and safety issues. These include downed lines across roadways, removing trees putting stress on lines and poles, and removing trees entangled with lines that are blocking critical access points.
They then focus on repairing transmission lines that provide power to our substations and the most people. Transmission lines must be repaired before power can be restored locally. Currently, all Clearwater Power substations have now been energized. Substations are distribution hubs where utilities receive and send electricity.
Work then begins at the substation and moves outward along the distribution lines. Distribution lines take electricity from substations to towns, neighborhoods and other small groups of members.
Then work begins on service lines. Service lines connect distribution lines to transformers that serve individual homes and businesses. If one home lacks power while lights are on in the rest of the neighborhood, the issue could be with the service line.
During an outage, substations and distribution lines serving the most people are prioritized before repairs to individual service lines.
Click on the link below for more information on how power is restored.
How is Power Restored?
Clearwater Power members can report outages using SmartHub or by calling 208-743-1501.
STAY SAFE:
⚠️Never drive near or over downed power lines.
⚠️Always assume downed power lines are energized.
⚠️Stay far away from power lines on the ground.
⚠️Do not attempt to remove trees or limbs from lines.
⚠️Stay back, keep others away and call for help
