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2024 Richland County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Richland County, MT went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 5,172 customer-hours (Montana average 8.5 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 51 Montana counties and 2839th 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 Richland 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 | October 5, 2024 07:00 | October 13, 2024 18:15 | 8d 11h | 796 | 3,952 |
| 2 | September 23, 2024 00:30 | September 23, 2024 01:45 | 1h 15m | 282 | 292 |
| 3 | April 5, 2024 23:30 | April 6, 2024 00:45 | 1h 15m | 169 | 211 |
| 4 | May 29, 2024 16:15 | May 29, 2024 18:30 | 2h 15m | 54 | 99 |
| 5 | May 12, 2024 23:30 | May 13, 2024 00:30 | 1h | 45 | 41 |
| 6 | November 13, 2024 16:45 | November 13, 2024 17:45 | 1h | 40 | 40 |
| 7 | June 28, 2024 00:30 | June 28, 2024 04:00 | 3h 30m | 23 | 25 |
| 8 | February 28, 2024 20:00 | February 28, 2024 20:45 | 45m | 17 | 11 |
| 9 | December 2, 2024 01:15 | December 2, 2024 03:00 | 1h 45m | 16 | 28 |
| 10 | September 16, 2024 17:00 | September 16, 2024 17:45 | 45m | 14 | 11 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 3 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 Richland 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 |
| McKenzie Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 4.3 hrs | 1.82 | 3.5 hrs | 1.61 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| McCone Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sheridan Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lower Yellowstone R E A, 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 ÷ 9,805 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. Richland County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richland 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/richland-county