Power Outages in Chaffee County, CO
No live outage feed is available for Chaffee County, CO yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 4.8 hours.
Chaffee County, CO is served by local tracked utilities.
Chaffee County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for Chaffee County right now.
Chaffee County has been under 14 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on July 17, 2026.
- Special Weather Statement ×11
- Flash Flood Warning ×3
Hardest-hit cities in Chaffee County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Chaffee County went about 4.8 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 7,836 customers.
Worst year here was 2024 (peak 4,448 customers out) · decade average 2.5 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 94 | 1,055 | 0.2 |
| 2016 | 84 | 1,828 | 0.4 |
| 2017 | 82 | 1,777 | 0.4 |
| 2018 | 131 | 1,923 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 137 | 3,025 | 0.9 |
| 2020 | 179 | 6,131 | 2.2 |
| 2021 | 129 | 3,443 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 159 | 4,878 | 2.1 |
| 2023 | 145 | 7,836 | 4.6 |
| 2024 | 241 | 4,448 | 9.1 |
| 2025 | 326 | 4,939 | 4.8 |
Relatively Low wildfire exposure · 2.5 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
Power outages in Chaffee County: FAQ
- How often does Chaffee County, CO lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Chaffee County, CO logged 326 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 4.8 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Chaffee County, CO?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 7,836 customers without power, beginning May 14, 2023 and lasting about 8h 15m.
- Is there a power outage in Chaffee County, CO right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Chaffee County, CO. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Chaffee County.
81201, 81211, 81227, 81228, 81236, 81242
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/08015 and /api/v1/counties/08015/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Colorado customers).