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2016 Larimer County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Larimer County, CO went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 394K customer-hours (Colorado average 1.7 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 40 Colorado counties and 1131st 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 Larimer 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 | March 23, 2016 01:30 | March 29, 2016 02:00 | 6d | 20,820 | 303K |
| 2 | April 3, 2016 21:45 | April 4, 2016 16:15 | 18h 30m | 2,944 | 7,656 |
| 3 | February 13, 2016 06:15 | February 16, 2016 23:45 | 3d 17h | 2,853 | 46K |
| 4 | March 14, 2016 14:15 | March 14, 2016 17:00 | 2h 45m | 2,689 | 1,599 |
| 5 | February 29, 2016 03:30 | March 1, 2016 23:30 | 1d 20h | 1,622 | 2,669 |
| 6 | April 20, 2016 13:00 | April 21, 2016 10:30 | 21h 30m | 1,538 | 2,368 |
| 7 | March 29, 2016 07:45 | March 30, 2016 13:45 | 1d 6h | 1,042 | 3,369 |
| 8 | February 22, 2016 17:00 | February 22, 2016 21:45 | 4h 45m | 882 | 424 |
| 9 | April 7, 2016 14:30 | April 8, 2016 12:30 | 22h | 874 | 975 |
| 10 | January 25, 2016 12:00 | January 25, 2016 18:15 | 6h 15m | 833 | 427 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 49 reached 100+ customers, 7 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Larimer 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 |
| Poudre Valley REA, Inc | 2016 | 14.8 hrs | 2.81 | 2.8 hrs | 1.27 |
| City of Loveland - (CO) | 2016 | 84 min | 0.53 | 49 min | 0.38 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| High West Energy, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mountain Parks Electric, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Estes Park | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fort Collins - (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 ÷ 154,680 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. Larimer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Larimer 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/larimer-county