County annual report · FIPS 08067
2016 La Plata County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in La Plata County, CO went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Colorado average 1.7 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 40 Colorado counties and 2032nd 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 La Plata 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 | December 22, 2016 16:15 | December 23, 2016 01:00 | 8h 45m | 3,006 | 7,021 |
| 2 | December 23, 2016 02:15 | December 23, 2016 06:00 | 3h 45m | 1,038 | 3,048 |
| 3 | December 25, 2016 02:30 | December 25, 2016 05:15 | 2h 45m | 795 | 1,558 |
| 4 | December 16, 2016 17:15 | December 17, 2016 21:45 | 1d 4h | 787 | 4,380 |
| 5 | December 23, 2016 12:00 | December 24, 2016 06:30 | 18h 30m | 233 | 947 |
| 6 | November 28, 2016 20:00 | November 29, 2016 00:00 | 4h | 181 | 645 |
| 7 | December 25, 2016 11:45 | December 25, 2016 14:00 | 2h 15m | 39 | 61 |
| 8 | December 28, 2016 16:00 | December 28, 2016 20:30 | 4h 30m | 28 | 51 |
| 9 | December 3, 2016 01:00 | December 3, 2016 01:45 | 45m | 18 | 14 |
| 10 | December 3, 2016 16:30 | December 3, 2016 19:00 | 2h 30m | 18 | 36 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 6 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 La Plata 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 |
| La Plata Electric Assn, Inc | 2016 | 1.8 hrs | 1.09 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| 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 ÷ 36,986 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. La Plata County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), La Plata 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/la-plata-county