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2017 Pitkin County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Pitkin County, CO went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 2,861 customer-hours (Colorado average 1.5 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 48 Colorado counties and 2461st 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 Pitkin 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 | December 16, 2017 19:15 | December 16, 2017 19:45 | 30m | 2,353 | 1,177 |
| 2 | November 29, 2017 08:45 | November 29, 2017 10:45 | 2h | 530 | 1,060 |
| 3 | November 29, 2017 18:30 | November 29, 2017 18:45 | 15m | 530 | 133 |
| 4 | December 7, 2017 18:00 | December 7, 2017 21:00 | 3h | 176 | 141 |
| 5 | December 6, 2017 17:00 | December 6, 2017 22:30 | 5h 30m | 43 | 186 |
| 6 | December 12, 2017 17:00 | December 12, 2017 18:45 | 1h 45m | 42 | 74 |
| 7 | November 29, 2017 19:30 | November 29, 2017 20:15 | 45m | 15 | 11 |
| 8 | December 15, 2017 18:00 | December 15, 2017 18:15 | 15m | 5 | 1 |
| 9 | November 27, 2017 17:15 | November 28, 2017 15:15 | 22h | 3 | 46 |
| 10 | December 1, 2017 16:45 | December 1, 2017 18:15 | 1h 30m | 2 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 4 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 Pitkin 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 |
| Holy Cross Electric Assn, Inc | 2017 | 89 min | 1.11 | 64 min | 0.96 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/pitkin-county