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2022 Meagher County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Meagher County, MT went without power for an average of 27.2 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Montana average 3.5 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 50 Montana counties and 211th 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 Meagher 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 | December 22, 2022 04:00 | December 22, 2022 09:15 | 5h 15m | 1,497 | 6,270 |
| 2 | August 15, 2022 02:15 | August 15, 2022 10:45 | 8h 30m | 1,214 | 3,083 |
| 3 | November 5, 2022 12:00 | November 6, 2022 05:00 | 17h | 206 | 680 |
| 4 | August 17, 2022 14:15 | August 17, 2022 21:15 | 7h | 174 | 472 |
| 5 | November 4, 2022 23:00 | November 5, 2022 05:15 | 6h 15m | 111 | 355 |
| 6 | December 21, 2022 11:00 | December 21, 2022 21:45 | 10h 45m | 111 | 820 |
| 7 | January 31, 2022 11:45 | January 31, 2022 23:00 | 11h 15m | 103 | 241 |
| 8 | July 6, 2022 11:30 | July 6, 2022 14:30 | 3h | 91 | 145 |
| 9 | July 19, 2022 06:30 | July 19, 2022 14:15 | 7h 45m | 67 | 360 |
| 10 | June 30, 2022 20:30 | June 30, 2022 22:15 | 1h 45m | 53 | 83 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 7 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Meagher 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Vigilante Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Park 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 ÷ 513 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. Meagher County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Meagher 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/meagher-county