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2022 Flathead County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Flathead County, MT went without power for an average of 8.9 hours, a total of 581K customer-hours (Montana average 3.5 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 50 Montana counties and 824th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with MT, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Montana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Flathead County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 2, 2022 09:15 | November 8, 2022 04:45 | 5d 19h | 16,122 | 399K |
| 2 | August 24, 2022 15:45 | August 25, 2022 02:00 | 10h 15m | 14,225 | 11K |
| 3 | July 30, 2022 03:45 | July 30, 2022 06:00 | 2h 15m | 13,124 | 9,428 |
| 4 | December 22, 2022 13:00 | December 23, 2022 06:15 | 17h 15m | 6,542 | 33K |
| 5 | October 6, 2022 04:00 | October 6, 2022 04:15 | 15m | 2,880 | 720 |
| 6 | December 21, 2022 13:30 | December 21, 2022 21:15 | 7h 45m | 2,611 | 4,107 |
| 7 | June 9, 2022 05:30 | June 9, 2022 12:45 | 7h 15m | 2,157 | 7,645 |
| 8 | March 6, 2022 09:30 | March 6, 2022 13:00 | 3h 30m | 1,916 | 4,945 |
| 9 | September 22, 2022 16:15 | September 22, 2022 17:30 | 1h 15m | 1,803 | 2,254 |
| 10 | April 4, 2022 20:45 | April 5, 2022 10:30 | 13h 45m | 1,729 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 91 reached 100+ customers, 19 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Flathead County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 11.5 hrs | 2.72 | 3.7 hrs | 1.82 |
| Lincoln Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 18.7 hrs | - | 3.0 hrs | - |
| Glacier Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| USBIA-Mission Valley Power | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 65,575 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. Flathead County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Flathead County, MT annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/montana/flathead-county