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2017 Lincoln County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lincoln County, MT went without power for an average of 6.9 hours, a total of 88K customer-hours (Montana average 2.7 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 19 Montana counties and 759th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with MT, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Montana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lincoln County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 19, 2017 15:45 | December 23, 2017 09:15 | 3d 17h | 5,757 | 32K |
| 2 | July 7, 2017 11:30 | July 7, 2017 14:00 | 2h 30m | 2,962 | 3,333 |
| 3 | October 17, 2017 20:00 | October 19, 2017 11:45 | 1d 15h | 1,988 | 17K |
| 4 | February 9, 2017 22:15 | February 10, 2017 16:15 | 18h | 1,605 | 4,179 |
| 5 | September 12, 2017 15:15 | September 12, 2017 17:15 | 2h | 1,594 | 1,572 |
| 6 | June 2, 2017 01:45 | June 2, 2017 03:45 | 2h | 908 | 1,588 |
| 7 | June 6, 2017 23:30 | June 7, 2017 07:30 | 8h | 907 | 4,993 |
| 8 | May 24, 2017 09:15 | May 24, 2017 18:30 | 9h 15m | 607 | 1,636 |
| 9 | July 23, 2017 13:45 | July 23, 2017 16:15 | 2h 30m | 605 | 638 |
| 10 | July 31, 2017 06:30 | July 31, 2017 08:15 | 1h 45m | 605 | 553 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 37 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 6.1 hrs | 2.20 | 3.5 hrs | 1.48 |
| Lincoln Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 18.3 hrs | - | 9.1 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/montana/lincoln-county