Gallatin County, Montana Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

Gallatin County, Montana had 5 major outages from 2019 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.34 times the US outage time per person and 0.59 times the Montana rate. It ranks 25 of 34 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 5 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

2 of 5years with a major outage

45 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Julhardest months

October and July made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 13, 2020, reached 2,764 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 45.0 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	674	1	0
2020	238,645	64	2
2021	173,082	54	3
2022	102,460	53	0
2023	18,621	27	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
Jul 13, 2020	45.0	2,764	49,037
Oct 16, 2022	5.8	11,296	31,311
Jan 30, 2021	6.0	5,455	28,613
Oct 11, 2021	9.2	6,262	27,041
Oct 8, 2020	9.8	6,905	26,654

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.