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2020 Lincoln County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lincoln County, MT went without power for an average of 11.2 hours, a total of 142K customer-hours (Montana average 5.6 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 50 Montana counties and 715th 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 Lincoln County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 1, 2020 10:45 | February 3, 2020 19:15 | 2d 8h | 4,170 | 58K |
| 2 | May 31, 2020 05:15 | June 1, 2020 07:30 | 1d 2h | 2,700 | 22K |
| 3 | September 7, 2020 13:30 | September 11, 2020 22:00 | 4d 8h | 1,678 | 20K |
| 4 | January 17, 2020 21:15 | January 18, 2020 06:00 | 8h 45m | 1,582 | 6,716 |
| 5 | June 26, 2020 15:15 | June 26, 2020 16:45 | 1h 30m | 1,574 | 788 |
| 6 | June 17, 2020 22:30 | June 18, 2020 01:45 | 3h 15m | 1,061 | 3,075 |
| 7 | May 2, 2020 23:45 | May 3, 2020 01:45 | 2h | 977 | 1,282 |
| 8 | June 24, 2020 23:45 | June 25, 2020 04:30 | 4h 45m | 827 | 2,114 |
| 9 | May 11, 2020 02:15 | May 11, 2020 06:30 | 4h 15m | 767 | 2,731 |
| 10 | October 14, 2020 05:15 | October 14, 2020 14:00 | 8h 45m | 622 | 943 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 40 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flathead Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 14.5 hrs | 2.38 | 2.9 hrs | 1.02 |
| 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 76% of Montana's customers in 2020; 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, 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/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/montana/lincoln-county