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2018 Lincoln County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lincoln County, MT went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 76K customer-hours (Montana average 1.9 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 20 Montana counties and 915th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with MT, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Montana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lincoln County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 11, 2018 16:30 | May 11, 2018 18:15 | 1h 45m | 5,634 | 1,410 |
| 2 | February 9, 2018 02:15 | February 9, 2018 19:30 | 17h 15m | 2,252 | 8,458 |
| 3 | June 22, 2018 00:15 | June 22, 2018 03:15 | 3h | 1,790 | 2,786 |
| 4 | June 11, 2018 01:30 | June 11, 2018 03:00 | 1h 30m | 1,535 | 2,139 |
| 5 | May 18, 2018 22:30 | May 18, 2018 23:15 | 45m | 1,522 | 761 |
| 6 | May 17, 2018 00:30 | May 17, 2018 06:45 | 6h 15m | 1,521 | 3,525 |
| 7 | June 27, 2018 05:45 | June 27, 2018 12:00 | 6h 15m | 1,521 | 9,506 |
| 8 | May 17, 2018 19:45 | May 17, 2018 20:00 | 15m | 1,520 | 380 |
| 9 | November 6, 2018 15:30 | November 6, 2018 16:00 | 30m | 1,520 | 760 |
| 10 | April 2, 2018 05:00 | April 2, 2018 08:30 | 3h 30m | 1,516 | 4,773 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 53 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.56 | 2.8 hrs | 1.56 |
| Lincoln Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 18.7 hrs | - | 3.0 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 16% of Montana's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/montana/lincoln-county