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2019 Valley County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Valley County, MT went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 5,654 customer-hours (Montana average 0.6 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 38 Montana counties and 2303rd of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with MT, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Montana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Valley County, 2019
The 5 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 25, 2019 02:45 | December 25, 2019 05:45 | 3h | 332 | 996 |
| 2 | December 25, 2019 19:00 | December 26, 2019 03:45 | 8h 45m | 332 | 2,630 |
| 3 | December 26, 2019 06:45 | December 26, 2019 11:30 | 4h 45m | 332 | 1,494 |
| 4 | December 25, 2019 00:00 | December 25, 2019 01:45 | 1h 45m | 304 | 532 |
| 5 | December 26, 2019 18:15 | December 26, 2019 20:15 | 2h | 1 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 4 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 Valley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NorthWestern Energy LLC - (MT) | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.08 | 1.7 hrs | 1.08 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| NorthWestern Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| NorVal Electric Cooperative, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Big Flat 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 75% of Montana's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,912 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. Valley County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Valley 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/valley-county