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2025 Lincoln County, MT Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Lincoln County, MT went without power for an average of 36.8 hours, a total of 468K customer-hours (Montana average 6.8 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 51 Montana counties and 135th 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 Lincoln County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 23, 2025 18:15 | June 23, 2025 20:30 | 2h 15m | 7,602 | 5,026 |
| 2 | December 17, 2025 13:45 | December 24, 2025 17:45 | 7d 4h | 6,953 | 399K |
| 3 | December 15, 2025 19:15 | December 17, 2025 00:30 | 1d 5h | 1,813 | 17K |
| 4 | April 29, 2025 12:45 | April 29, 2025 13:45 | 1h | 1,718 | 1,565 |
| 5 | June 11, 2025 15:45 | June 11, 2025 17:00 | 1h 15m | 1,467 | 371 |
| 6 | February 24, 2025 08:00 | February 24, 2025 20:45 | 12h 45m | 1,340 | 4,564 |
| 7 | December 26, 2025 17:30 | December 26, 2025 22:15 | 4h 45m | 1,227 | 2,464 |
| 8 | April 18, 2025 19:15 | April 19, 2025 00:30 | 5h 15m | 1,202 | 605 |
| 9 | October 15, 2025 14:45 | October 15, 2025 20:30 | 5h 45m | 1,024 | 3,282 |
| 10 | May 28, 2025 16:15 | May 28, 2025 17:45 | 1h 30m | 695 | 701 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 41 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2025; 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, 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/lincoln-county