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2024 Daniels County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Daniels County, MT went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 523 customer-hours (Montana average 8.5 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 51 Montana counties and 2649th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with MT, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Montana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Daniels County, 2024
The 8 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 16, 2024 19:45 | November 16, 2024 20:30 | 45m | 698 | 350 |
| 2 | April 22, 2024 18:45 | April 22, 2024 20:00 | 1h 15m | 117 | 126 |
| 3 | November 16, 2024 16:00 | November 16, 2024 16:30 | 30m | 11 | 5 |
| 4 | July 6, 2024 18:15 | July 6, 2024 19:00 | 45m | 8 | 5 |
| 5 | September 24, 2024 19:15 | September 24, 2024 20:15 | 1h | 8 | 8 |
| 6 | April 11, 2024 19:15 | April 11, 2024 19:45 | 30m | 6 | 3 |
| 7 | September 18, 2024 02:30 | September 18, 2024 02:45 | 15m | 6 | 2 |
| 8 | June 28, 2024 14:45 | June 28, 2024 19:45 | 5h | 5 | 25 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 2 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Daniels County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | 2024 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 | 2.1 hrs | 1.10 |
| Sheridan Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| NorVal Electric Cooperative, 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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 429 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. Daniels County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Daniels County, MT annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/montana/daniels-county