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2022 Richland County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Richland County, MT went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 6,217 customer-hours (Montana average 3.5 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 50 Montana counties and 2806th 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 Richland 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 | April 19, 2022 06:15 | May 3, 2022 23:45 | 14d 17h | 1,633 | 3,810 |
| 2 | May 10, 2022 13:00 | May 10, 2022 13:45 | 45m | 1,599 | 403 |
| 3 | December 27, 2022 08:00 | December 27, 2022 20:30 | 12h 30m | 378 | 660 |
| 4 | May 20, 2022 20:15 | May 20, 2022 20:30 | 15m | 369 | 92 |
| 5 | May 20, 2022 23:45 | May 21, 2022 00:00 | 15m | 364 | 91 |
| 6 | November 10, 2022 01:15 | November 10, 2022 04:15 | 3h | 311 | 131 |
| 7 | March 21, 2022 04:30 | March 21, 2022 04:45 | 15m | 287 | 72 |
| 8 | July 28, 2022 16:00 | July 28, 2022 16:45 | 45m | 170 | 128 |
| 9 | June 27, 2022 16:45 | June 27, 2022 17:30 | 45m | 166 | 124 |
| 10 | July 28, 2022 05:15 | July 28, 2022 05:30 | 15m | 58 | 15 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 9 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 Richland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McKenzie Electric Coop Inc | 2022 | 37.0 hrs | 2.25 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| McCone Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sheridan Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lower Yellowstone R E A, 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 ÷ 9,805 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. Richland County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richland 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/richland-county