Power Outages in Carbon County, MT
No live outage feed is available for Carbon County, MT yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 3.5 hours.
Carbon County, MT is served by local tracked utilities.
Carbon County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for Carbon County right now.
Carbon County has been under 23 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on July 17, 2026.
- Extreme Heat Warning ×12
- Red Flag Warning ×8
- Special Weather Statement ×2
- Fire Weather Watch ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Carbon County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Carbon County went about 3.5 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 3,383 customers.
Worst year here was 2021 (peak 1,329 customers out) · decade average 3.8 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 3 | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 208 | 524 | 0.9 |
| 2020 | 200 | 1,149 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 175 | 1,329 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 164 | 2,575 | 6.7 |
| 2023 | 132 | 2,789 | 6.9 |
| 2024 | 136 | 3,383 | 3.7 |
| 2025 | 192 | 1,580 | 3.5 |
Relatively Moderate wildfire exposure · 3.8 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Carbon County: FAQ
- How often does Carbon County, MT lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Carbon County, MT logged 192 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 3.5 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Carbon County, MT?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 3,383 customers without power, beginning September 3, 2024 and lasting about 2d 5h.
- Is there a power outage in Carbon County, MT right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Carbon County, MT. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Carbon County.
59007, 59008, 59013, 59014, 59026, 59029, 59041, 59068, 59070, 59071
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/30009 and /api/v1/counties/30009/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Montana customers).