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2016 Carbon County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Carbon County, MT went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 242 customer-hours (Montana average 1.8 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 8 Montana counties and 2280th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with MT, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Montana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Carbon County, 2016
The 3 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 18, 2016 15:00 | October 18, 2016 22:00 | 7h | 4 | 28 |
| 2 | October 15, 2016 11:15 | October 15, 2016 11:30 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | October 25, 2016 03:30 | November 3, 2016 01:00 | 8d 21h | 1 | 213 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 0 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Carbon County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NorthWestern Energy LLC - (MT) | 2016 | 2.4 hrs | 1.21 | 1.9 hrs | 1.07 |
| Big Horn Rural Electric Co | 2016 | 6.1 hrs | 2.04 | - | - |
| Flathead Electric Coop Inc | 2016 | 3.3 hrs | 1.49 | 3.1 hrs | 1.43 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| NorthWestern Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Yellowstone Valley Elec Co-op | - | - | - | - | - |
| Beartooth Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,512 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. Carbon County has data for 2016, 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carbon County, MT annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/montana/carbon-county