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2015 Lincoln County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Lincoln County, MT went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Montana average 2.3 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 5 Montana counties and 1152nd of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with MT, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Montana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lincoln County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 18, 2015 02:15 | November 18, 2015 15:00 | 12h 45m | 1,561 | 11K |
| 2 | November 18, 2015 15:45 | November 20, 2015 23:30 | 2d 7h | 891 | 9,914 |
| 3 | December 23, 2015 18:45 | December 23, 2015 23:15 | 4h 30m | 882 | 3,969 |
| 4 | April 22, 2015 20:00 | April 22, 2015 20:45 | 45m | 368 | 276 |
| 5 | January 5, 2015 15:00 | January 5, 2015 19:00 | 4h | 275 | 710 |
| 6 | December 22, 2015 15:15 | December 22, 2015 18:15 | 3h | 177 | 86 |
| 7 | December 9, 2015 18:00 | December 9, 2015 18:45 | 45m | 151 | 110 |
| 8 | August 11, 2015 13:30 | August 11, 2015 13:45 | 15m | 140 | 35 |
| 9 | May 29, 2015 01:15 | May 29, 2015 04:00 | 2h 45m | 138 | 307 |
| 10 | August 2, 2015 03:30 | August 2, 2015 04:15 | 45m | 132 | 99 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 13 reached 100+ customers, 1 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Lincoln County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flathead Electric Coop Inc | 2015 | 7.6 hrs | 1.87 | 3.1 hrs | 1.50 |
| Lincoln Electric Coop, Inc | 2015 | 6.2 hrs | - | 6.2 hrs | - |
| Northern Lights, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Troy - (MT) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Montana's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 12,721 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln County, MT annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/montana/lincoln-county