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2016 Pitkin County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Pitkin County, CO went without power for an average of 9.0 hours, a total of 115K customer-hours (Colorado average 1.7 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 40 Colorado counties and 394th 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 Pitkin 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 | May 18, 2016 13:30 | May 18, 2016 14:45 | 1h 15m | 11,728 | 3,015 |
| 2 | August 7, 2016 16:15 | August 9, 2016 15:00 | 1d 22h | 4,207 | 7,359 |
| 3 | August 15, 2016 15:30 | August 16, 2016 12:30 | 21h | 3,598 | 70K |
| 4 | January 12, 2016 07:30 | January 12, 2016 09:45 | 2h 15m | 1,774 | 931 |
| 5 | January 12, 2016 10:30 | January 12, 2016 11:00 | 30m | 1,774 | 887 |
| 6 | June 15, 2016 14:00 | June 15, 2016 15:45 | 1h 45m | 1,265 | 2,213 |
| 7 | February 16, 2016 06:30 | March 10, 2016 21:00 | 23d 14h | 1,204 | 2,065 |
| 8 | April 8, 2016 00:15 | April 12, 2016 14:15 | 4d 14h | 1,202 | 506 |
| 9 | April 16, 2016 03:00 | April 17, 2016 00:00 | 21h | 760 | 1,876 |
| 10 | July 25, 2016 16:00 | August 2, 2016 16:15 | 8d | 665 | 1,588 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 34 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Pitkin 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 |
| Holy Cross Electric Assn, Inc,holycrossenergy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Aspen- (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 ÷ 12,768 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. Pitkin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pitkin 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/pitkin-county