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2016 Garfield County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Garfield County, CO went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 79K customer-hours (Colorado average 1.7 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 40 Colorado counties and 1245th 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 Garfield 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 | August 26, 2016 00:30 | August 26, 2016 10:00 | 9h 30m | 3,415 | 27K |
| 2 | September 13, 2016 13:30 | September 13, 2016 15:00 | 1h 30m | 2,829 | 1,336 |
| 3 | May 2, 2016 19:45 | May 6, 2016 18:15 | 3d 22h | 2,630 | 1,422 |
| 4 | April 6, 2016 14:30 | April 6, 2016 21:15 | 6h 45m | 2,405 | 2,000 |
| 5 | June 7, 2016 16:00 | June 7, 2016 16:30 | 30m | 2,119 | 1,060 |
| 6 | June 1, 2016 19:45 | June 1, 2016 20:45 | 1h | 2,117 | 2,117 |
| 7 | April 20, 2016 18:30 | April 20, 2016 20:15 | 1h 45m | 2,116 | 545 |
| 8 | April 21, 2016 16:00 | April 21, 2016 19:00 | 3h | 2,116 | 3,703 |
| 9 | April 20, 2016 17:30 | April 20, 2016 17:45 | 15m | 2,115 | 529 |
| 10 | July 18, 2016 18:00 | July 19, 2016 13:15 | 19h 15m | 2,115 | 549 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 44 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Garfield 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 |
| Holy Cross Electric Assn, Inc | 2016 | 80 min | 1.14 | 80 min | 1.14 |
| Grand Valley Power | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | - | 1.6 hrs | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Moon Lake Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Holy Cross Electric Assn, Inc,holycrossenergy | - | - | - | - | - |
| White River Electric Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Glenwood Springs - (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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 34,904 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. Garfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Garfield 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/garfield-county