County annual report · FIPS 08053
2016 Hinsdale County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Hinsdale County, CO went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 159 customer-hours (Colorado average 1.7 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 40 Colorado counties and 2166th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hinsdale County, 2016
The 7 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 23, 2016 05:45 | December 23, 2016 17:00 | 11h 15m | 13 | 146 |
| 2 | December 19, 2016 22:15 | December 19, 2016 23:45 | 1h 30m | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | December 23, 2016 17:45 | December 23, 2016 18:45 | 1h | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | December 23, 2016 19:45 | December 23, 2016 20:00 | 15m | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | December 23, 2016 21:15 | December 23, 2016 22:00 | 45m | 2 | 1 |
| 6 | December 23, 2016 22:45 | December 24, 2016 00:30 | 1h 45m | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | December 24, 2016 01:30 | December 24, 2016 03:45 | 2h 15m | 2 | 3 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 0 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Hinsdale 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 |
| San Luis Valley R E C, Inc | 2016 | 3.3 hrs | 1.50 | 2.4 hrs | 1.33 |
| La Plata Electric Assn, Inc | 2016 | 1.8 hrs | 1.09 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| Gunnison County Elec Assn. | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 773 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. Hinsdale County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hinsdale 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/hinsdale-county