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2016 Flathead County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Flathead County, MT went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 160K customer-hours (Montana average 1.8 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 8 Montana counties and 1176th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with MT, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Montana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Flathead County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 25, 2016 13:45 | October 25, 2016 22:15 | 8h 30m | 4,728 | 2,964 |
| 2 | July 8, 2016 11:15 | July 8, 2016 16:15 | 5h | 3,797 | 6,997 |
| 3 | October 10, 2016 09:00 | October 11, 2016 12:45 | 1d 3h | 3,504 | 17K |
| 4 | May 19, 2016 11:00 | May 19, 2016 16:45 | 5h 45m | 2,538 | 8,109 |
| 5 | May 9, 2016 01:15 | May 9, 2016 10:30 | 9h 15m | 1,925 | 4,416 |
| 6 | August 10, 2016 16:45 | August 10, 2016 22:45 | 6h | 1,922 | 1,502 |
| 7 | September 3, 2016 17:30 | September 3, 2016 19:00 | 1h 30m | 1,918 | 1,922 |
| 8 | May 11, 2016 04:45 | May 11, 2016 11:15 | 6h 30m | 1,908 | 3,366 |
| 9 | July 12, 2016 16:15 | July 12, 2016 22:00 | 5h 45m | 1,892 | 955 |
| 10 | April 24, 2016 05:45 | April 24, 2016 08:30 | 2h 45m | 1,881 | 4,223 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 101 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Flathead 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flathead Electric Coop Inc | 2016 | 3.3 hrs | 1.49 | 3.1 hrs | 1.43 |
| Lincoln Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 7.3 hrs | - | 7.3 hrs | - |
| Glacier Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| USBIA-Mission Valley Power | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 65,575 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. Flathead County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Flathead 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/flathead-county