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2024 Lincoln County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Lincoln County, MT went without power for an average of 18.0 hours, a total of 229K customer-hours (Montana average 8.5 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 51 Montana counties and 567th 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 Lincoln 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 | September 25, 2024 23:45 | September 28, 2024 01:30 | 2d 1h | 8,585 | 147K |
| 2 | June 11, 2024 15:45 | June 12, 2024 05:00 | 13h 15m | 5,776 | 8,230 |
| 3 | March 2, 2024 18:30 | March 2, 2024 23:30 | 5h | 1,705 | 4,025 |
| 4 | October 4, 2024 22:00 | October 5, 2024 07:30 | 9h 30m | 1,320 | 6,399 |
| 5 | October 23, 2024 22:00 | October 23, 2024 22:15 | 15m | 1,194 | 299 |
| 6 | August 22, 2024 07:30 | August 22, 2024 17:00 | 9h 30m | 1,184 | 7,003 |
| 7 | May 14, 2024 14:00 | May 14, 2024 23:30 | 9h 30m | 1,179 | 7,252 |
| 8 | July 3, 2024 09:30 | July 3, 2024 14:15 | 4h 45m | 1,178 | 5,091 |
| 9 | February 4, 2024 15:00 | February 4, 2024 17:00 | 2h | 1,155 | 1,356 |
| 10 | February 17, 2024 23:00 | February 18, 2024 01:15 | 2h 15m | 792 | 1,385 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 51 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flathead Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 9.8 hrs | 2.72 | 3.9 hrs | 1.90 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/lincoln-county