When will the power be back in Powell County, MT?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Powell County, MT right now.
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Elsewhere in Montana: 3 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 9:31 PM MDT.
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Who serves Powell County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include NorthWestern Energy ↗ and Missoula Electric Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Powell County, MT
Last significant outage: Jul 18, 2026 — peaked at 247 customers, restored in ~6.7 hr (wind/storm).
Across the 2 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 5.9 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 17, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Powell County, MT
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
28 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~5.2 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: ~2,993 customers out in July 2024, restored after about 45.3 hr.
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 Powell County include Deer Lodge, Avon, Avon-Elliston, Elliston, Garrison, Goldcreek, Helmville and Ovando. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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