Power Outages in Richland County, MT
No live outage feed is available for Richland County, MT yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 0.9 hours.
Richland County, MT is served by local tracked utilities.
Richland 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 Richland County right now.
Richland County has been under 15 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Extreme Heat Warning on July 15, 2026.
- Extreme Heat Warning ×11
- High Wind Warning ×3
- Heat Advisory ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Richland County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Richland County went about 0.9 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 2,967 customers.
Worst year here was 2021 (peak 2,967 customers out) · decade average 2.1 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 70 | 2,682 | 2.0 |
| 2018 | 33 | 2,864 | 2.7 |
| 2019 | 30 | 1,722 | 3.5 |
| 2020 | 13 | 2,700 | 0.5 |
| 2021 | 33 | 2,967 | 7.9 |
| 2022 | 29 | 1,633 | 0.6 |
| 2023 | 16 | 365 | 0.3 |
| 2024 | 22 | 796 | 0.5 |
| 2025 | 30 | 1,282 | 0.9 |
Relatively Moderate winter weather exposure · 2.1 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
Power outages in Richland County: FAQ
- How often does Richland County, MT lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Richland County, MT logged 30 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 0.9 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Richland County, MT?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 2,967 customers without power, beginning June 6, 2021 and lasting about 15d.
- Is there a power outage in Richland County, MT right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Richland County, MT. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Richland County.
59217, 59221, 59243, 59262, 59270
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/30083 and /api/v1/counties/30083/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Montana customers).