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2023 Meagher County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Meagher County, MT went without power for an average of 34.8 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Montana average 1.8 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 50 Montana counties and 188th 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 Meagher 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 | October 23, 2023 08:15 | October 23, 2023 11:00 | 2h 45m | 1,356 | 3,729 |
| 2 | February 23, 2023 08:00 | February 23, 2023 15:45 | 7h 45m | 1,223 | 3,676 |
| 3 | March 27, 2023 00:45 | March 27, 2023 08:45 | 8h | 1,223 | 3,382 |
| 4 | June 13, 2023 20:45 | June 14, 2023 06:15 | 9h 30m | 593 | 1,325 |
| 5 | April 27, 2023 15:00 | April 27, 2023 18:15 | 3h 15m | 431 | 1,293 |
| 6 | June 15, 2023 14:30 | June 15, 2023 22:30 | 8h | 114 | 403 |
| 7 | April 26, 2023 16:45 | April 26, 2023 18:00 | 1h 15m | 103 | 129 |
| 8 | April 26, 2023 21:00 | April 26, 2023 22:45 | 1h 45m | 103 | 180 |
| 9 | April 25, 2023 12:30 | April 25, 2023 16:45 | 4h 15m | 85 | 269 |
| 10 | August 4, 2023 03:30 | August 4, 2023 10:45 | 7h 15m | 84 | 609 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 8 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NorthWestern Energy LLC - (MT) | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 0.93 | 1.7 hrs | 0.93 |
| 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 n/a of Montana's customers in 2023; 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, 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/meagher-county