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2018 Powder River County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Powder River County, MT went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 143 customer-hours (Montana average 1.9 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 20 Montana counties and 2608th 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 Powder River County, 2018
The 3 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 28, 2018 00:45 | November 28, 2018 10:45 | 10h | 15 | 99 |
| 2 | December 20, 2018 17:00 | December 20, 2018 19:30 | 2h 30m | 15 | 38 |
| 3 | July 24, 2018 14:15 | July 24, 2018 21:00 | 6h 45m | 1 | 7 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 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 Powder River 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Hills Power, Inc. | 2018 | 3.8 hrs | 1.21 | 3.7 hrs | 1.17 |
| Powder River Energy Corp | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.52 | 2.8 hrs | 1.52 |
| Tongue River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southeast 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 16% of Montana's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 583 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. Powder River County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Powder River 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/powder-river-county