Mineral County, Montana Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

Mineral County, Montana had 6 major outages from 2019 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.33 times the US outage time per person and 4.02 times the Montana rate. It ranks 2 of 34 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 5 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

2 of 5years with a major outage

22 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Febhardest months

January and February made up 58% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 13, 2021, reached 2,260 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 20.0 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2019	1,303	2	0
2020	2,110	7	0
2021	110,570	15	4
2022	26,551	11	2
2023	7,248	5	0

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Jan 13, 2021	20.0	2,260	34,209
Nov 16, 2021	22.5	2,247	19,916
Feb 26, 2021	9.2	3,207	17,552
Aug 2, 2021	6.5	2,197	11,380
Jan 14, 2021	13.0	1,105	10,286

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.