Flathead Electric Coop Inc, MT
Flathead Electric Coop Inc's outage record
14.8 hours without electricity across 2.3 separate outages - Flathead Electric Coop Inc's record for Montana puts it near the bottom of every utility on file. That is 208% more outage time than the Montana state average of 4.8 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
A single outage here runs long, about 6.4 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 79,942 customers here, Flathead Electric Coop Inc is among the least reliable grids in the country on file. You should get a generator here; going without one means betting against the grid's own filed history.
The source behind this number
Flathead Electric Coop Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Montana territory, serving 79,942 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Montana average instead of just this one utility? Montana's statewide record is here. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.