Power outage history

Toole County Montana

The outage record here is too thin for a reliable yearly average. Raw events are listed below.

Hours without power, average customer per year –h / yr State average 4.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year – Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% – Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage –
Outage hours on storm days – Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 3,546 ORNL customer model · 0 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Toole's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

Toole, hours without power per customer

TooleUS median countyMontana average
0 2 4 6 8 US 6.6 MT 4.9

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

No outage reached 1% of customers in the record.

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Toole

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Montana territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Glacier Electric Coop, Inc MT – – – 10.2 74k
Sun River Electric Coop, Inc MT 79 79 – 13.3 47k
Marias River Electric Coop Inc MT – – – 8.8 31k
WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration Federal – – – – –

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Montana

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 3,546 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →