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2017 La Plata County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in La Plata County, CO went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 99K customer-hours (Colorado average 1.5 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 48 Colorado counties and 1422nd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in La Plata County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 5, 2017 23:30 | August 6, 2017 03:30 | 4h | 13,471 | 32K |
| 2 | May 26, 2017 02:30 | May 26, 2017 09:00 | 6h 30m | 11,879 | 27K |
| 3 | January 17, 2017 18:30 | January 18, 2017 01:45 | 7h 15m | 6,186 | 11K |
| 4 | June 8, 2017 14:45 | June 8, 2017 17:30 | 2h 45m | 3,471 | 1,353 |
| 5 | August 21, 2017 22:30 | August 22, 2017 02:45 | 4h 15m | 3,037 | 5,387 |
| 6 | August 10, 2017 13:30 | August 10, 2017 21:00 | 7h 30m | 1,076 | 284 |
| 7 | August 18, 2017 14:15 | August 18, 2017 17:00 | 2h 45m | 1,070 | 275 |
| 8 | May 13, 2017 20:30 | May 14, 2017 00:30 | 4h | 838 | 1,257 |
| 9 | July 22, 2017 14:45 | July 23, 2017 07:45 | 17h | 718 | 1,130 |
| 10 | December 7, 2017 15:45 | December 7, 2017 22:30 | 6h 45m | 663 | 1,386 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 36 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 La Plata County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 1.8 hrs | 1.01 | 84 min | 0.92 |
| La Plata Electric Assn, Inc | 2017 | 2.7 hrs | 1.78 | 65 min | 0.96 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/colorado/la-plata-county