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2015 Pitkin County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Pitkin County, CO went without power for an average of 11.6 hours, a total of 148K customer-hours (Colorado average 1.2 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 33 Colorado counties and 228th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Pitkin County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 23, 2015 19:30 | June 26, 2015 01:30 | 2d 6h | 3,708 | 64K |
| 2 | June 22, 2015 18:30 | June 22, 2015 23:30 | 5h | 3,706 | 12K |
| 3 | May 5, 2015 15:00 | May 6, 2015 20:00 | 1d 5h | 2,811 | 27K |
| 4 | June 26, 2015 14:15 | June 26, 2015 19:45 | 5h 30m | 2,516 | 7,286 |
| 5 | June 22, 2015 15:30 | June 22, 2015 16:15 | 45m | 1,982 | 1,309 |
| 6 | January 16, 2015 16:00 | January 22, 2015 00:30 | 5d 8h | 1,693 | 562 |
| 7 | September 9, 2015 23:45 | September 14, 2015 16:00 | 4d 16h | 1,287 | 7,189 |
| 8 | August 3, 2015 11:45 | August 4, 2015 17:45 | 1d 6h | 1,166 | 2,202 |
| 9 | March 11, 2015 15:00 | March 11, 2015 20:30 | 5h 30m | 1,094 | 3,839 |
| 10 | April 17, 2015 12:45 | April 17, 2015 21:00 | 8h 15m | 636 | 2,256 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 28 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Pitkin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Co of Colorado | 2015 | 1.6 hrs | 0.98 | 88 min | 0.95 |
| Holy Cross Electric Assn, Inc | 2015 | 69 min | 0.88 | 69 min | 0.88 |
| Holy Cross Electric Assn, Inc,holycrossenergy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Aspen- (CO) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Colorado's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 12,768 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Pitkin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pitkin County, CO annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/colorado/pitkin-county