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2024 Fallon County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Fallon County, MT went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 2,878 customer-hours (Montana average 8.5 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 51 Montana counties and 2640th 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 Fallon County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 23, 2024 14:30 | November 23, 2024 17:30 | 3h | 447 | 999 |
| 2 | February 8, 2024 21:15 | February 8, 2024 23:00 | 1h 45m | 431 | 734 |
| 3 | November 19, 2024 04:00 | November 19, 2024 10:15 | 6h 15m | 106 | 577 |
| 4 | June 21, 2024 16:00 | June 21, 2024 18:45 | 2h 45m | 101 | 273 |
| 5 | November 23, 2024 11:45 | November 23, 2024 12:00 | 15m | 82 | 21 |
| 6 | July 30, 2024 15:15 | July 30, 2024 15:30 | 15m | 16 | 4 |
| 7 | July 4, 2024 05:00 | July 4, 2024 20:30 | 15h 30m | 10 | 155 |
| 8 | January 8, 2024 18:00 | January 8, 2024 18:45 | 45m | 9 | 7 |
| 9 | January 14, 2024 16:15 | January 14, 2024 18:00 | 1h 45m | 8 | 14 |
| 10 | July 30, 2024 20:30 | July 30, 2024 20:45 | 15m | 7 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 4 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 Fallon 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tongue River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Goldenwest Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southeast 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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,280 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. Fallon County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fallon 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/fallon-county