When will the power be back in Rosebud County, MT?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Rosebud 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 Rosebud County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include NorthWestern Energy ↗ and Montana-Dakota Utilities, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Mid-Yellowstone Electric Cooperative, McCone Electric Cooperative and Tongue River Electric Cooperative also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.

Outage history — Rosebud 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 — Rosebud County, MT

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 59 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025. Typical restoration ran ~1.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.

That is shorter than the Montana norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3 hr.

Largest on record: ~1,232 customers out in July 2020, restored after about 10.8 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2021.

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 Rosebud County include Colstrip, Forsyth, Ashland, Birney, Lame Deer, North of the Yellowstone and Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.

Common questions

How do I report a power outage in Rosebud County, MT?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Rosebud include Mid-Yellowstone Electric Cooperative, NorthWestern Energy, Montana-Dakota Utilities and others — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

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Treasure County · Custer County · Big Horn County · Garfield County · Yellowstone County · Prairie County · Powder River County · Musselshell County

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