Fergus County, Montana Power Outages, 2020 to 2023

Fergus County, Montana had 3 major outages from 2020 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.68 times the US outage time per person and 1.18 times the Montana rate. It ranks 15 of 34 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 4 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

3 of 4years with a major outage

48 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aprhardest months

October and April made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 11, 2020, reached 4,252 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 7.2 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
2020	32,858	7	1
2021	16,679	4	1
2022	22,204	4	1
2023	7,219	3	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
Apr 11, 2020	7.2	4,252	17,206
Dec 1, 2021	48.0	353	12,300
May 7, 2020	12.2	1,796	10,627
Oct 23, 2022	10.5	1,464	9,150
Oct 26, 2022	2.2	4,101	8,530

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.