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2019 Pitkin County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Pitkin County, CO went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Colorado average 3.3 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 55 Colorado counties and 1838th 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 Pitkin 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 | October 10, 2019 12:30 | October 15, 2019 18:15 | 5d 5h | 2,516 | 2,580 |
| 2 | September 2, 2019 12:30 | September 2, 2019 14:15 | 1h 45m | 1,137 | 1,858 |
| 3 | September 5, 2019 16:00 | September 8, 2019 22:45 | 3d 6h | 1,122 | 2,328 |
| 4 | March 3, 2019 00:45 | March 4, 2019 17:00 | 1d 16h | 622 | 5,063 |
| 5 | September 9, 2019 03:15 | September 9, 2019 07:15 | 4h | 516 | 695 |
| 6 | February 5, 2019 07:45 | February 5, 2019 10:30 | 2h 45m | 501 | 1,378 |
| 7 | November 22, 2019 07:15 | November 23, 2019 19:30 | 1d 12h | 461 | 4,297 |
| 8 | March 7, 2019 06:00 | March 12, 2019 06:00 | 5d | 381 | 4,485 |
| 9 | March 12, 2019 07:00 | March 19, 2019 16:45 | 7d 9h | 309 | 601 |
| 10 | May 1, 2019 13:30 | May 1, 2019 19:15 | 5h 45m | 265 | 391 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 18 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 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 |
| 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 83% of Colorado's customers in 2019; 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, 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/pitkin-county