When will the power be back in Madison County, MT?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Montana
No significant county-wide outage reported in Madison County, MT right now.
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Elsewhere in Montana: 3 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 6:16 AM MDT.
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Who serves Madison County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include NorthWestern Energy ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Vigilante Electric Cooperative also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Madison County, MT
No significant outages recorded here since we began tracking this county — smaller flickers (under ~200 customers at peak) aren't archived.
Longer-term outage history — Madison County, MT
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
116 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~4.2 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the Montana norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3 hr.
Largest on record: ~6,110 customers out in November 2020, restored after about 16.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2024.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Madison County include Ennis, Sheridan, Twin Bridges, Virginia City, Alder, Brandon, Harrison and Jeffers. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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