Prairie County, Montana Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

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Prairie County, Montana had no major outages from 2019 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 5 years of records.

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Nonelongest major outage

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June and July made up 95% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 10, 2022, reached 458 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 6.2 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
2019	2,246	3
2020	112	1
2021	336	1
2022	2,787	1
2023	1,028	1

When outages hit

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Jul 10, 2022	6.2	458	2,787
Jun 19, 2019	4.2	450	1,910
Jun 20, 2023	3.0	357	1,028
Aug 12, 2021	0.8	451	336
Jun 19, 2019	0.5	450	225

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.
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