County annual report · FIPS 08105
2016 Rio Grande County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Rio Grande County, CO went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 4,789 customer-hours (Colorado average 1.7 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 40 Colorado counties and 1945th 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 Rio Grande 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 | June 30, 2016 22:15 | July 1, 2016 00:15 | 2h | 1,506 | 2,096 |
| 2 | August 2, 2016 00:45 | August 2, 2016 09:15 | 8h 30m | 266 | 1,532 |
| 3 | April 16, 2016 09:30 | April 16, 2016 11:45 | 2h 15m | 134 | 185 |
| 4 | April 26, 2016 01:00 | April 26, 2016 02:00 | 1h | 89 | 67 |
| 5 | March 14, 2016 19:45 | March 14, 2016 21:00 | 1h 15m | 85 | 78 |
| 6 | August 7, 2016 16:15 | August 7, 2016 21:00 | 4h 45m | 72 | 97 |
| 7 | April 17, 2016 02:45 | April 17, 2016 04:15 | 1h 30m | 60 | 39 |
| 8 | June 30, 2016 19:00 | June 30, 2016 19:45 | 45m | 58 | 44 |
| 9 | August 8, 2016 14:15 | August 8, 2016 16:15 | 2h | 46 | 70 |
| 10 | June 14, 2016 09:45 | June 14, 2016 14:30 | 4h 45m | 29 | 117 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 3 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Rio Grande 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 |
| City of Center - (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 ÷ 7,555 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. Rio Grande County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rio Grande 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/rio-grande-county