Power Outages in Prairie County, MT
No live outage feed is available for Prairie County, MT yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 8.1 hours.
Prairie County, MT is served by local tracked utilities.
Prairie 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 Prairie County right now.
Prairie County has been under 14 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Extreme Heat Warning on July 15, 2026.
- Extreme Heat Warning ×11
- High Wind Warning ×3
Hardest-hit cities in Prairie County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Prairie County went about 8.1 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 477 customers.
Worst year here was 2024 (peak 468 customers out) · decade average 3.2 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 10 | 123 | 1.3 |
| 2018 | 5 | 114 | 0.2 |
| 2019 | 2 | 450 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | 449 | 0.3 |
| 2021 | 11 | 451 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 3 | 458 | 3.8 |
| 2023 | 9 | 357 | 2.3 |
| 2024 | 18 | 468 | 8.9 |
| 2025 | 9 | 477 | 8.1 |
Relatively Low winter weather exposure · 3.2 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 Prairie County: FAQ
- How often does Prairie County, MT lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Prairie County, MT logged 9 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 8.1 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Prairie County, MT?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 477 customers without power, beginning July 20, 2025 and lasting about 1d 1h.
- Is there a power outage in Prairie County, MT right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Prairie County, MT. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Prairie County.
59326, 59349
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/30079 and /api/v1/counties/30079/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Montana customers).