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2024 Meagher County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Meagher County, MT went without power for an average of 56.6 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Montana average 8.5 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 51 Montana counties and 173rd 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 Meagher 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 14, 2024 05:30 | May 14, 2024 08:45 | 3h 15m | 1,268 | 3,806 |
| 2 | May 17, 2024 23:45 | May 18, 2024 02:30 | 2h 45m | 1,268 | 3,170 |
| 3 | December 9, 2024 18:15 | December 9, 2024 19:30 | 1h 15m | 1,265 | 1,581 |
| 4 | May 8, 2024 04:30 | May 13, 2024 14:30 | 5d 10h | 434 | 10K |
| 5 | August 20, 2024 00:30 | August 20, 2024 05:15 | 4h 45m | 300 | 992 |
| 6 | August 4, 2024 16:45 | August 4, 2024 20:15 | 3h 30m | 208 | 313 |
| 7 | August 5, 2024 19:45 | August 6, 2024 00:45 | 5h | 207 | 985 |
| 8 | January 18, 2024 07:30 | January 18, 2024 15:15 | 7h 45m | 206 | 999 |
| 9 | February 3, 2024 19:00 | February 4, 2024 01:15 | 6h 15m | 206 | 950 |
| 10 | September 23, 2024 22:45 | September 24, 2024 02:30 | 3h 45m | 139 | 391 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 15 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 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/meagher-county