County annual report · FIPS 30019
2020 Daniels County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Daniels County, MT went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 1,747 customer-hours (Montana average 5.6 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 50 Montana counties and 1591st of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with MT, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Montana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Daniels County, 2020
The 4 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 24, 2020 01:15 | July 24, 2020 03:30 | 2h 15m | 688 | 1,121 |
| 2 | June 11, 2020 01:30 | June 11, 2020 02:15 | 45m | 671 | 503 |
| 3 | August 27, 2020 22:45 | August 28, 2020 00:45 | 2h | 67 | 121 |
| 4 | June 16, 2020 09:45 | June 16, 2020 10:00 | 15m | 5 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 2 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 Daniels County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sheridan Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| NorVal Electric Cooperative, 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 76% of Montana's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 429 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. Daniels County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Daniels County, MT annual power outage report, 2020, 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/montana/daniels-county