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2019 Lincoln County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lincoln County, MT went without power for an average of 6.8 hours, a total of 86K customer-hours (Montana average 0.6 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 38 Montana counties and 822nd of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with MT, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Montana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lincoln County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 24, 2019 06:00 | July 26, 2019 00:30 | 1d 18h | 7,237 | 51K |
| 2 | July 12, 2019 10:30 | July 12, 2019 17:00 | 6h 30m | 1,195 | 7,492 |
| 3 | January 9, 2019 11:45 | January 9, 2019 16:00 | 4h 15m | 927 | 2,141 |
| 4 | August 11, 2019 04:00 | August 11, 2019 08:15 | 4h 15m | 766 | 2,550 |
| 5 | December 20, 2019 11:00 | December 20, 2019 23:30 | 12h 30m | 765 | 4,789 |
| 6 | June 19, 2019 22:15 | June 20, 2019 03:15 | 5h | 490 | 1,523 |
| 7 | January 29, 2019 20:00 | January 29, 2019 20:30 | 30m | 428 | 107 |
| 8 | January 8, 2019 07:45 | January 8, 2019 09:30 | 1h 45m | 417 | 730 |
| 9 | February 10, 2019 15:00 | February 11, 2019 01:30 | 10h 30m | 387 | 2,447 |
| 10 | February 3, 2019 17:45 | February 4, 2019 02:45 | 9h | 347 | 1,152 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 29 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2019, 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 75% of Montana's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/montana/lincoln-county