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2018 Montezuma County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Montezuma County, CO went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 2 customer-hours (Colorado average 1.6 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 49 Colorado counties and 2793rd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Montezuma County, 2018
The 4 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 22, 2018 18:15 | January 22, 2018 18:45 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | January 22, 2018 19:30 | January 22, 2018 20:00 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | January 22, 2018 21:45 | January 22, 2018 22:00 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | March 4, 2018 21:45 | March 4, 2018 22:30 | 45m | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 0 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Montezuma County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 | 1.6 hrs | 0.98 |
| Empire Electric Assn, Inc | 2018 | 66 min | 0.60 | 66 min | 0.60 |
| 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 88% of Colorado's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 14,154 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. Montezuma County has data for 2018–2020, 2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montezuma County, CO annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/colorado/montezuma-county