Northern Lights, Inc, MT
How often Northern Lights, Inc goes out
Northern Lights, Inc customers in Montana had 0 interruptions last year, 3.7 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.3×. That is 23% less outage time than the Montana state average of 4.8 hours a year.
How long a single Northern Lights, Inc outage runs
This utility did not file enough detail to say how long a typical outage runs here, so there is no basis yet for which kind of backup fits best. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
Do Northern Lights, Inc customers need a generator
Serving 5,057 customers here, Given how often Northern Lights, Inc goes out, you should consider a backup generator rather than treat it as optional.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Northern Lights, Inc files with federal regulators every year - serving 5,057 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. Storm days are counted in - here is why.