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2022 Judith Basin County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Judith Basin County, MT went without power for an average of 9.7 hours, a total of 9,726 customer-hours (Montana average 3.5 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 50 Montana counties and 754th 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 Judith Basin 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 | July 18, 2022 22:00 | July 19, 2022 02:00 | 4h | 501 | 1,876 |
| 2 | March 22, 2022 22:15 | March 23, 2022 01:00 | 2h 45m | 500 | 1,375 |
| 3 | March 4, 2022 05:30 | March 4, 2022 08:00 | 2h 30m | 414 | 932 |
| 4 | October 12, 2022 10:15 | October 12, 2022 11:45 | 1h 30m | 411 | 515 |
| 5 | October 26, 2022 15:15 | October 26, 2022 17:30 | 2h 15m | 411 | 898 |
| 6 | July 28, 2022 09:30 | July 28, 2022 10:45 | 1h 15m | 381 | 458 |
| 7 | July 28, 2022 05:00 | July 28, 2022 07:45 | 2h 45m | 307 | 844 |
| 8 | August 4, 2022 05:15 | August 4, 2022 07:15 | 2h | 307 | 614 |
| 9 | May 20, 2022 02:15 | May 20, 2022 04:45 | 2h 30m | 220 | 464 |
| 10 | July 10, 2022 10:45 | July 10, 2022 17:45 | 7h | 112 | 784 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 11 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 Judith Basin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NorthWestern Energy LLC - (MT) | 2022 | 2.2 hrs | 1.14 | 2.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| Fergus Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sun River 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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,006 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. Judith Basin County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Judith Basin 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/judith-basin-county