Gas Line Repair in Emmett, ID
Emmett is a town of two systems. 30% take mains gas and 7% use propane, and only one of those arrangements has a utility on the other side of it.
Read this first
Mains gas heats 30% of homes in Emmett and tank gas another 7%. The difference matters more than the fault does at first, because only one of the two has a meter outlet where the utility's responsibility stops.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey table B25040; the service line boundary is 49 CFR § 192.3.
If you smell gas right now
Leave the building on foot. Do not use a phone or a light switch inside. Call 911 and your gas utility from somewhere else, and do not call us — we are a referral service, not an emergency line. The full list, in order.
How Emmett is supplied
Mains and tank gas differ in ownership, in who to call, and in how the gas behaves if it escapes — propane is heavier than air and collects low rather than rising.
What they do not differ in is the emergency response, which is the same for both and is the first thing on every page of this site.
| Households in Emmett | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 30% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 7% |
| Electricity | 45% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 1% |
| Wood and everything else | 18% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 6,672 occupied housing units. The table counts heating fuel rather than pipework. A house on mains gas almost certainly has a service line; the Census does not say so directly and neither do we. Service line definition: 49 CFR § 192.3, via PHMSA interpretation PI-12-0003.
Across Idaho as a whole, 62% of households are on mains gas and 3% on tank propane. Emmett sits 32 points below the state on mains and 4 points above it on propane. That is the gap a statewide number papers over, and the reason the figures above are this town’s rather than the state’s.
Before anyone digs on the property
8-1-1 is free and nationwide, and PHMSA gives callers a 99 percent chance of avoiding an incident, injury or worse. Ask them what they will and will not mark: privately owned buried lines on your own side of the meter frequently are not covered.
Source: PHMSA, 811 Day.
What to ask whoever quotes it
If any part of the job is in the ground, ask when they are calling 8-1-1 and whether a private line may be in the way. Both answers should come before the excavation, not during it.
Other Idaho towns we route in
- New Plymouth 23% mains gas · 10% tank propane
- Pingree 0% mains gas · 13% tank propane
- Marsing under 1% mains gas · 16% tank propane
- Eagle 77% mains gas · 2% tank propane
- Arimo 35% mains gas · 26% tank propane
Checking a plumber in Idaho
Idaho licenses are issued by the Idaho State Plumbing Board, Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.
Gas work is separately permitted and separately licensed in most jurisdictions, so ask specifically about gas rather than plumbing in general.
For repair work, not for a suspected leak.If you can smell gas, leave and call 911 or your utility from outside; this is the wrong number for that. For everything else — a line, a meter, an appliance connection — we will route you to a contractor covering your area, free of charge to you. Any Emmett job, gas or otherwise, is routed from here.
Call (888) 752-8038