Fergus Electric Coop, Inc, MT
Fergus Electric Coop, Inc's outage record
This grid runs rougher than most of the country: Fergus Electric Coop, Inc's Montana customers saw 3 interruptions and 8 hours without power in the most recent year on file. That is 67% more outage time than the Montana state average of 4.8 hours a year.
How long a single Fergus Electric Coop, Inc outage runs
2.6 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 7,137 customers here, This is not a borderline case - Fergus Electric Coop, Inc's outage record alone is reason enough to get a backup generator before the next one hits.
How Fergus Electric Coop, Inc's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Fergus Electric Coop, Inc files with federal regulators every year - serving 7,137 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Montana as a whole, across every utility that filed: Montana's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.