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2016 Weld County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Weld County, CO went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 758K customer-hours (Colorado average 1.7 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 40 Colorado counties and 548th 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 Weld 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 07:30 | March 28, 2016 23:30 | 5d 16h | 39,618 | 578K |
| 2 | January 26, 2016 03:00 | January 26, 2016 05:15 | 2h 15m | 10,336 | 23K |
| 3 | August 27, 2016 14:00 | August 27, 2016 20:00 | 6h | 9,237 | 12K |
| 4 | January 21, 2016 21:00 | January 21, 2016 21:15 | 15m | 8,881 | 2,220 |
| 5 | May 5, 2016 19:00 | May 5, 2016 22:45 | 3h 45m | 8,780 | 4,128 |
| 6 | June 8, 2016 21:15 | June 9, 2016 03:30 | 6h 15m | 5,822 | 8,597 |
| 7 | March 7, 2016 19:00 | March 8, 2016 04:45 | 9h 45m | 5,633 | 8,078 |
| 8 | June 6, 2016 13:00 | June 7, 2016 04:30 | 15h 30m | 5,535 | 4,411 |
| 9 | March 9, 2016 18:30 | March 10, 2016 23:45 | 1d 5h | 3,304 | 2,503 |
| 10 | June 4, 2016 09:45 | June 4, 2016 15:45 | 6h | 2,932 | 7,303 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 92 reached 100+ customers, 25 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Weld 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Highline Electric Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| High West Energy, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Morgan County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Power, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Longmont | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 122,323 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. Weld County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Weld 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/weld-county