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2018 Pitkin County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Pitkin County, CO went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Colorado average 1.6 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 49 Colorado counties and 2227th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Pitkin County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 4, 2018 00:15 | July 4, 2018 00:45 | 30m | 1,871 | 471 |
| 2 | July 29, 2018 15:30 | July 29, 2018 17:30 | 2h | 1,297 | 2,270 |
| 3 | May 21, 2018 21:00 | May 21, 2018 21:45 | 45m | 900 | 675 |
| 4 | October 11, 2018 14:15 | October 11, 2018 18:00 | 3h 45m | 639 | 758 |
| 5 | September 18, 2018 15:30 | September 18, 2018 19:45 | 4h 15m | 368 | 236 |
| 6 | May 23, 2018 16:00 | May 24, 2018 18:15 | 1d 2h | 313 | 130 |
| 7 | April 20, 2018 20:00 | April 20, 2018 22:00 | 2h | 295 | 90 |
| 8 | April 17, 2018 14:30 | April 17, 2018 22:30 | 8h | 258 | 775 |
| 9 | October 2, 2018 15:15 | October 2, 2018 19:45 | 4h 30m | 209 | 530 |
| 10 | May 1, 2018 15:00 | May 5, 2018 00:15 | 3d 9h | 185 | 268 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 20 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
| Holy Cross Electric Assn, Inc | 2018 | 1.6 hrs | 1.47 | 75 min | 1.10 |
| 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 88% of Colorado's customers in 2018; 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, 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/pitkin-county