County annual report · FIPS 08105
2017 Rio Grande County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Rio Grande County, CO went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Colorado average 1.5 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 48 Colorado counties and 1788th 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 Rio Grande 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 | September 13, 2017 23:15 | September 14, 2017 05:15 | 6h | 2,655 | 6,229 |
| 2 | September 29, 2017 10:30 | September 29, 2017 13:45 | 3h 15m | 985 | 2,235 |
| 3 | August 1, 2017 00:15 | August 1, 2017 05:15 | 5h | 403 | 832 |
| 4 | May 9, 2017 10:45 | May 9, 2017 13:15 | 2h 30m | 168 | 253 |
| 5 | May 10, 2017 02:30 | May 10, 2017 06:00 | 3h 30m | 156 | 453 |
| 6 | May 9, 2017 19:45 | May 9, 2017 23:45 | 4h | 155 | 253 |
| 7 | September 30, 2017 20:00 | October 1, 2017 03:00 | 7h | 107 | 192 |
| 8 | June 9, 2017 21:15 | June 9, 2017 22:30 | 1h 15m | 94 | 62 |
| 9 | June 20, 2017 13:15 | June 20, 2017 16:15 | 3h | 58 | 101 |
| 10 | May 15, 2017 20:30 | May 16, 2017 01:00 | 4h 30m | 46 | 185 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 7 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 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 |
| San Luis Valley R E C, Inc | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | 1.42 | 2.2 hrs | 1.16 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/rio-grande-county