County annual report · FIPS 08015
2016 Chaffee County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Chaffee County, CO went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 5,527 customer-hours (Colorado average 1.7 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 40 Colorado counties and 2045th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chaffee County, 2016
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 22, 2016 11:45 | June 22, 2016 14:45 | 3h | 1,828 | 462 |
| 2 | June 22, 2016 21:45 | June 22, 2016 22:45 | 1h | 1,828 | 917 |
| 3 | June 27, 2016 21:30 | June 27, 2016 21:45 | 15m | 1,827 | 457 |
| 4 | June 25, 2016 14:00 | June 25, 2016 15:30 | 1h 30m | 544 | 579 |
| 5 | May 25, 2016 16:30 | May 25, 2016 17:15 | 45m | 214 | 139 |
| 6 | August 17, 2016 14:15 | August 17, 2016 17:30 | 3h 15m | 138 | 207 |
| 7 | June 28, 2016 14:15 | June 28, 2016 15:45 | 1h 30m | 129 | 163 |
| 8 | July 15, 2016 14:30 | July 15, 2016 20:30 | 6h | 128 | 705 |
| 9 | July 28, 2016 03:15 | July 28, 2016 05:00 | 1h 45m | 128 | 205 |
| 10 | August 10, 2016 21:45 | August 10, 2016 23:15 | 1h 30m | 127 | 188 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 11 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Chaffee County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 1.23 | 86 min | 0.97 |
| CORE Electric Cooperative | 2016 | 2.7 hrs | 0.91 | 77 min | 0.79 |
| Sangre De Cristo Elec Assn Inc | 2016 | 11.5 hrs | 2.74 | 2.7 hrs | 0.50 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 12,341 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. Chaffee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chaffee County, CO annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/colorado/chaffee-county