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2024 Judith Basin County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Judith Basin County, MT went without power for an average of 34.8 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (Montana average 8.5 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 51 Montana counties and 279th 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 Judith Basin 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 | May 8, 2024 01:00 | May 12, 2024 02:45 | 4d 1h | 1,351 | 25K |
| 2 | October 5, 2024 03:15 | October 7, 2024 20:45 | 2d 17h | 648 | 5,711 |
| 3 | November 3, 2024 18:30 | November 4, 2024 02:00 | 7h 30m | 412 | 1,505 |
| 4 | December 30, 2024 03:00 | December 30, 2024 06:30 | 3h 30m | 225 | 524 |
| 5 | March 28, 2024 20:30 | March 29, 2024 02:45 | 6h 15m | 222 | 448 |
| 6 | June 24, 2024 13:30 | June 24, 2024 20:30 | 7h | 139 | 791 |
| 7 | November 19, 2024 16:30 | November 19, 2024 18:00 | 1h 30m | 40 | 60 |
| 8 | January 30, 2024 20:30 | January 30, 2024 22:00 | 1h 30m | 16 | 24 |
| 9 | September 12, 2024 03:45 | September 12, 2024 05:30 | 1h 45m | 12 | 16 |
| 10 | October 8, 2024 19:30 | October 9, 2024 00:30 | 5h | 12 | 57 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 6 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Judith Basin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NorthWestern Energy LLC - (MT) | 2024 | 3.9 hrs | 1.30 | 2.0 hrs | 0.95 |
| Fergus Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sun River 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 ÷ 1,006 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. Judith Basin County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Judith Basin 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/judith-basin-county