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2020 Powder River County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Powder River County, MT went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 33 customer-hours (Montana average 5.6 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 50 Montana counties and 2958th 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 Powder River County, 2020
The 3 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 25, 2020 18:30 | December 25, 2020 22:15 | 3h 45m | 8 | 30 |
| 2 | July 23, 2020 15:00 | July 23, 2020 16:45 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | October 13, 2020 19:30 | October 13, 2020 20:30 | 1h | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Hills Power, Inc. | 2020 | 63 min | 0.56 | 30 min | 0.36 |
| Powder River Energy Corp | 2020 | 4.8 hrs | 2.30 | 3.2 hrs | 1.94 |
| 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 76% of Montana's customers in 2020; 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, 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/powder-river-county