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2025 Daniels County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Daniels County, MT went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 1,774 customer-hours (Montana average 6.8 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 51 Montana counties and 1731st of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with MT, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Montana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Daniels County, 2025
The 8 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 25, 2025 04:30 | November 25, 2025 08:30 | 4h | 694 | 1,410 |
| 2 | August 3, 2025 03:30 | August 3, 2025 04:45 | 1h 15m | 509 | 147 |
| 3 | August 9, 2025 01:45 | August 9, 2025 02:00 | 15m | 58 | 15 |
| 4 | August 26, 2025 15:30 | August 26, 2025 19:45 | 4h 15m | 49 | 174 |
| 5 | April 28, 2025 18:00 | April 28, 2025 18:30 | 30m | 9 | 5 |
| 6 | December 3, 2025 20:30 | December 3, 2025 21:30 | 1h | 9 | 9 |
| 7 | March 23, 2025 18:00 | March 23, 2025 19:00 | 1h | 7 | 7 |
| 8 | April 12, 2025 15:15 | April 12, 2025 16:30 | 1h 15m | 6 | 8 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 2 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 Daniels County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
| Sheridan Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| NorVal Electric Cooperative, 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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 429 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. Daniels County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Daniels County, MT annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/montana/daniels-county