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2019 La Plata County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in La Plata County, CO went without power for an average of 5.8 hours, a total of 213K customer-hours (Colorado average 3.3 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 55 Colorado counties and 962nd of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in La Plata County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 15, 2019 02:15 | February 17, 2019 18:00 | 2d 15h | 17,764 | 152K |
| 2 | April 30, 2019 13:30 | April 30, 2019 16:15 | 2h 45m | 2,815 | 1,593 |
| 3 | August 2, 2019 00:00 | August 2, 2019 01:30 | 1h 30m | 2,760 | 738 |
| 4 | June 19, 2019 21:00 | June 19, 2019 22:15 | 1h 15m | 1,588 | 1,442 |
| 5 | April 27, 2019 21:30 | April 28, 2019 02:00 | 4h 30m | 1,449 | 1,572 |
| 6 | September 1, 2019 06:45 | September 1, 2019 10:45 | 4h | 1,344 | 2,724 |
| 7 | March 12, 2019 13:45 | March 15, 2019 02:30 | 2d 12h | 1,170 | 3,241 |
| 8 | November 6, 2019 01:15 | November 6, 2019 06:30 | 5h 15m | 1,130 | 1,650 |
| 9 | December 1, 2019 13:30 | December 2, 2019 01:15 | 11h 45m | 1,096 | 10K |
| 10 | March 22, 2019 22:30 | March 23, 2019 00:15 | 1h 45m | 1,083 | 932 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 47 reached 100+ customers, 12 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 2019, 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 |
| La Plata Electric Assn, Inc | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 1.68 | 1.7 hrs | 1.34 |
| 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 83% of Colorado's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/colorado/la-plata-county