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2024 Wheatland County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Wheatland County, MT went without power for an average of 9.6 hours, a total of 6,764 customer-hours (Montana average 8.5 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 51 Montana counties and 966th 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 Wheatland 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 | April 15, 2024 19:00 | April 16, 2024 02:00 | 7h | 292 | 2,044 |
| 2 | May 8, 2024 01:00 | May 8, 2024 02:00 | 1h | 292 | 292 |
| 3 | November 21, 2024 01:30 | November 21, 2024 02:00 | 30m | 287 | 144 |
| 4 | December 18, 2024 22:45 | December 19, 2024 00:00 | 1h 15m | 286 | 287 |
| 5 | May 8, 2024 04:00 | May 9, 2024 02:15 | 22h 15m | 170 | 1,477 |
| 6 | October 17, 2024 13:00 | October 17, 2024 16:00 | 3h | 165 | 461 |
| 7 | October 21, 2024 17:15 | October 21, 2024 22:45 | 5h 30m | 112 | 174 |
| 8 | December 19, 2024 01:00 | December 19, 2024 06:00 | 5h | 65 | 268 |
| 9 | August 28, 2024 13:00 | August 28, 2024 16:45 | 3h 45m | 63 | 177 |
| 10 | September 18, 2024 18:15 | September 18, 2024 20:45 | 2h 30m | 46 | 85 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 7 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 Wheatland 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 705 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. Wheatland County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wheatland 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/wheatland-county