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2022 Lincoln County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Lincoln County, MT went without power for an average of 7.1 hours, a total of 90K customer-hours (Montana average 3.5 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 50 Montana counties and 1023rd 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 Lincoln 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 3, 2022 19:45 | November 5, 2022 08:00 | 1d 12h | 5,926 | 1,545 |
| 2 | January 10, 2022 23:00 | January 10, 2022 23:15 | 15m | 5,786 | 1,447 |
| 3 | October 24, 2022 22:15 | October 25, 2022 00:15 | 2h | 4,257 | 1,453 |
| 4 | December 26, 2022 14:00 | December 27, 2022 17:00 | 1d 3h | 2,056 | 3,814 |
| 5 | February 28, 2022 12:45 | February 28, 2022 18:30 | 5h 45m | 1,776 | 7,375 |
| 6 | June 23, 2022 06:00 | June 23, 2022 11:45 | 5h 45m | 1,734 | 9,971 |
| 7 | September 1, 2022 04:15 | September 1, 2022 07:45 | 3h 30m | 1,239 | 3,417 |
| 8 | May 2, 2022 23:30 | May 3, 2022 00:45 | 1h 15m | 1,233 | 1,287 |
| 9 | August 11, 2022 23:00 | August 12, 2022 02:00 | 3h | 1,142 | 2,855 |
| 10 | April 26, 2022 13:15 | April 26, 2022 15:15 | 2h | 1,127 | 1,864 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 53 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 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 | - |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/lincoln-county