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Who serves Sanders County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Avista, NorthWestern Energy ↗, Flathead Electric Cooperative and Mission Valley Power, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Northern Lights 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 — Sanders County, MT
Last significant outage: Sep 2, 2026 — peaked at 1,055 customers, restored in ~1.8 hr (weather alert).
Across the 6 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.1 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 — Sanders County, MT
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
152 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in winter.
That is shorter than the Montana norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3 hr.
Largest on record: ~7,428 customers out in January 2021, restored after about 3.6 days. The busiest year on record here was 2022.
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 Sanders County include Thompson Falls, Plains, Hot Springs, Belknap, Camas, Flathead Reservation, Heron and Lonepine. 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 Sanders County, MT?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Sanders include Avista, Mission Valley Power, Northern Lights 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.
