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2016 Lincoln County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lincoln County, MT went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (Montana average 1.8 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 8 Montana counties and 980th 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 Lincoln 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 | January 19, 2016 18:45 | January 19, 2016 22:45 | 4h | 5,596 | 13K |
| 2 | April 20, 2016 16:45 | April 20, 2016 18:30 | 1h 45m | 1,549 | 1,933 |
| 3 | July 6, 2016 05:00 | July 6, 2016 11:15 | 6h 15m | 1,447 | 9,044 |
| 4 | August 31, 2016 05:00 | August 31, 2016 11:30 | 6h 30m | 895 | 3,488 |
| 5 | January 8, 2016 06:45 | January 8, 2016 08:15 | 1h 30m | 565 | 153 |
| 6 | October 10, 2016 15:00 | October 10, 2016 22:30 | 7h 30m | 457 | 3,077 |
| 7 | April 23, 2016 02:30 | April 23, 2016 11:30 | 9h | 449 | 3,429 |
| 8 | July 21, 2016 16:15 | July 21, 2016 17:15 | 1h | 411 | 309 |
| 9 | April 23, 2016 20:15 | April 23, 2016 20:30 | 15m | 283 | 71 |
| 10 | May 9, 2016 13:00 | May 9, 2016 15:45 | 2h 45m | 242 | 357 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 18 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 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 | - |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/lincoln-county