Power Outages in Rio Grande County, CO
No live outage feed is available for Rio Grande County, CO yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 3.9 hours.
Rio Grande County, CO is served by local tracked utilities.
Rio Grande 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 Rio Grande County right now.
Rio Grande County has been under 6 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on July 17, 2026.
- Special Weather Statement ×6
Hardest-hit cities in Rio Grande County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Rio Grande County went about 3.9 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 5,654 customers.
Worst year here was 2024 (peak 5,402 customers out) · decade average 2.8 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 84 | 255 | 0.3 |
| 2016 | 107 | 1,506 | 0.6 |
| 2017 | 111 | 2,655 | 1.6 |
| 2018 | 137 | 4,210 | 2.0 |
| 2019 | 170 | 5,654 | 3.2 |
| 2020 | 175 | 2,693 | 2.3 |
| 2021 | 167 | 1,017 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 195 | 2,752 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 176 | 2,705 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 215 | 5,402 | 10.3 |
| 2025 | 303 | 3,344 | 3.9 |
Relatively Low wildfire exposure · 2.8 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability very high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Rio Grande County: FAQ
- How often does Rio Grande County, CO lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Rio Grande County, CO logged 303 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 3.9 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Rio Grande County, CO?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 5,654 customers without power, beginning March 12, 2019 and lasting about 1d 13h.
- Is there a power outage in Rio Grande County, CO right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Rio Grande County, CO. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Rio Grande County.
81132, 81144, 81154
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/08105 and /api/v1/counties/08105/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Colorado customers).