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2023 Lincoln County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lincoln County, MT went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Montana average 1.8 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 50 Montana counties and 1809th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with MT, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Montana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lincoln County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 3, 2023 17:00 | June 3, 2023 20:15 | 3h 15m | 5,785 | 1,449 |
| 2 | October 6, 2023 21:15 | October 6, 2023 21:30 | 15m | 2,018 | 505 |
| 3 | June 14, 2023 01:00 | June 14, 2023 13:15 | 12h 15m | 1,585 | 5,472 |
| 4 | January 18, 2023 17:30 | January 18, 2023 18:15 | 45m | 1,160 | 870 |
| 5 | March 1, 2023 16:00 | March 2, 2023 01:30 | 9h 30m | 1,119 | 5,603 |
| 6 | August 22, 2023 04:15 | August 22, 2023 12:15 | 8h | 796 | 6,368 |
| 7 | February 21, 2023 21:15 | February 21, 2023 22:00 | 45m | 665 | 499 |
| 8 | January 18, 2023 22:15 | January 19, 2023 02:15 | 4h | 642 | 2,568 |
| 9 | October 7, 2023 15:45 | October 7, 2023 18:15 | 2h 30m | 387 | 788 |
| 10 | August 7, 2023 07:30 | August 7, 2023 11:30 | 4h | 385 | 1,450 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 35 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 2.7 hrs | 1.62 | 2.7 hrs | 1.62 |
| 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 n/a of Montana's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/montana/lincoln-county