Special message to members still without power from Flathead Electric Cooperative:
Chief Operating Officer Jason Williams is interviewed by Community Relations Manager Katie Pfennigs on Saturday, December 20, 2025
If you received this text message or email from Flathead Electric Cooperative, we are aware that one or more of your electric meters is still without power. Please watch this message to you from Chief Operating Officer Jason Williams, as interviewed by Community Relations Manager Katie Pfennigs. The video may be viewed here.
(If your power has already been restored, please disregard this message.)
UPDATE: Saturday, December 20, 1:30 p.m.
Our hearts go out to all our members who remain without power – some have now been without electricity for four days.
Since our 7:30 a.m. update this morning, crews restored electricity to another 700 members, bringing the total number of members down from 30,000+ to about 3,300. Workers made excellent progress yesterday, clearing trees, improving access, and making headway to help our line crews restore power. We hope this groundwork will lead to significant progress today. That said, there is still a lot of work to be done. There are still 125 individual outages remaining for crews to repair, some of which require complex and time-consuming restoration processes.
Today, we will begin transitioning our outage information messaging back to the Outage Map, where information is normally found in less widespread outage situations. This means that best available information will be available by locating your individual outage on the Outage Map. If you’d like help learning how to use the Outage Map, please read this: How to Use Flathead Electric Cooperative’s Outage Map & Online Account to Confirm We Know About Your Outage.
Estimated times of restoration have not yet been assigned to any outages – what’s important right now is that the map is an accurate reflection of all remaining power outages. If you are still out, please review the Outage Map to ensure your outage is reported, even if you’ve reported it before. If the map isn’t reflecting your outage, please report it.
We are hopeful that more significant gains will be made today. Our thoughts are constantly with our members still out of power. Please also keep our many crew members in your thoughts today as they tackle restoring electricity amongst massive, uprooted trees, treacherous mud, and ever-changing weather conditions. Thank you for your continued patience with this very unfortunate situation.
Additional Resources
- If you are experiencing a medical or other emergency, please call 911.
- In Flathead County, the Office of Emergency Services and the Red Cross are standing by and ready to open a shelter at the Fairgrounds if requested by a member of the public. You can call 406-758-2111 to make that request.
- There is an emergency shelter open in Libby at the Memorial Center, for those who need assistance.
- See all Outage Updates
- December Power Outage FAQs
- How to Use Flathead Electric Cooperative’s Outage Map & Online Account to Confirm We Know About Your Outage
- What We Saw Patrolling the Electric Grid on December 17 and 18
- How to Report your Power Outage: (scroll down this page to the “How to Report an Outage” section)
- What to do During an Outage
