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Montana: official power outage sources
NorthWestern Energy and Montana-Dakota Utilities are Montana's main investor-owned utilities, overseen by the Montana Public Service Commission. Many rural areas are served by electric cooperatives. Mission Valley Power, on the Flathead Reservation, is federally owned and operated by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.
Outages in Montana right now
Not shown on this site. Power Grid Watch does not have live outage information for Montana. That does not mean there are no outages. Use the official links below to check and to report.
If your power is out
- Stay away from downed lines and anything touching them. Call 911.
- Report it to your own utility. The name and outage phone number are on your electric bill. Do not assume a neighbor has reported it.
- Check your utility's outage page for the area affected and any restoration estimate. Only your utility can give that estimate.
Utility outage pages
Each link covers only that utility's own customers. If your provider is not listed here, use the directories in the next section.
- NorthWestern Energy Outage page Montana customers can report outages at 888-467-2669. northwesternenergy.com
- Montana-Dakota Utilities Outage page Not every outage on the map appears in its table, and restoration estimates can change. customer.montana-dakota.com
- Mission Valley Power Outage page Office 406-883-7900; after-hours and emergencies 406-883-7972. missionvalleypower.org
- Black Hills Energy Outage page Serves a small area of Carter and Powder River counties. blackhillsenergy.com
- Avista Utility website Serves a small area of Sanders County. myavista.com
Official state sources
Use these to find out which utility serves an address, to reach the regulator, and to follow state emergency information.
- Montana Public Service Commission: energy Regulator Regulator information; not a complete list of every local provider. psc.mt.gov
- Montana Disaster and Emergency Services: mitigation planning Emergency management des.mt.gov
- National Weather Service Weather alerts Enter your town or ZIP code for current watches and warnings. A weather warning is not an outage prediction. weather.gov
Good to know in Montana
- Cooperative and city utility customers should check with their own provider; NorthWestern's and Montana-Dakota's maps do not cover them.
- Mission Valley Power customers should use Mission Valley's own outage center and phone lines.
- Some cooperatives based in Idaho, Wyoming or North Dakota serve parts of Montana.
The wider grid
Regional grid organizations and balancing areas that cover all or part of Montana: NorthWestern Energy balancing area; Bonneville Power Administration; Southwest Power Pool (western expansion, April 2026); MISO (Montana-Dakota's eastern system). They balance supply and demand on the high-voltage system. Their alerts describe the regional system, not an outage on your street. How the pieces fit together
Links on this page were last reviewed on . Official pages move; if a link is broken or a provider is missing, tell us.