Power Outages in Custer County, MT
No live outage feed is available for Custer County, MT yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 0.4 hours.
Custer County, MT is served by local tracked utilities.
Custer 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 Custer County right now.
Custer County has been under 15 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Extreme Heat Warning on July 15, 2026.
- Extreme Heat Warning ×9
- Red Flag Warning ×5
- Fire Weather Watch ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Custer County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Custer County went about 0.4 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 4,487 customers.
Worst year here was 2024 (peak 2,045 customers out) · decade average 1.5 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 107 | 4,342 | 1.7 |
| 2018 | 39 | 969 | 0.4 |
| 2019 | 41 | 892 | 0.7 |
| 2020 | 67 | 4,487 | 2.2 |
| 2021 | 76 | 676 | 0.6 |
| 2022 | 55 | 4,016 | 1.1 |
| 2023 | 68 | 2,691 | 0.6 |
| 2024 | 53 | 2,045 | 5.5 |
| 2025 | 60 | 1,486 | 0.4 |
Relatively High winter weather exposure · 1.5 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 Custer County: FAQ
- How often does Custer County, MT lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Custer County, MT logged 60 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 0.4 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Custer County, MT?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 4,487 customers without power, beginning December 3, 2020 and lasting about 3h 45m.
- Is there a power outage in Custer County, MT right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Custer County, MT. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Custer County.
59301, 59336, 59338, 59345
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/30017 and /api/v1/counties/30017/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Montana customers).