County annual report · FIPS 08103
2019 Rio Blanco County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Rio Blanco County, CO went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 370 customer-hours (Colorado average 3.3 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 55 Colorado counties and 2838th 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 Rio Blanco 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 30, 2019 01:45 | October 30, 2019 04:30 | 2h 45m | 56 | 51 |
| 2 | December 21, 2019 05:15 | December 21, 2019 07:15 | 2h | 33 | 58 |
| 3 | December 25, 2019 16:15 | December 25, 2019 20:00 | 3h 45m | 7 | 17 |
| 4 | July 28, 2019 20:45 | July 28, 2019 22:15 | 1h 30m | 5 | 7 |
| 5 | December 16, 2019 15:30 | December 17, 2019 17:30 | 1d 2h | 5 | 80 |
| 6 | September 28, 2019 12:00 | September 28, 2019 16:45 | 4h 45m | 3 | 14 |
| 7 | December 18, 2019 14:30 | December 18, 2019 16:00 | 1h 30m | 3 | 5 |
| 8 | December 18, 2019 17:00 | December 18, 2019 20:15 | 3h 15m | 3 | 8 |
| 9 | December 9, 2019 09:15 | December 9, 2019 11:15 | 2h | 2 | 4 |
| 10 | December 13, 2019 09:30 | December 13, 2019 13:45 | 4h 15m | 2 | 5 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 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 Rio Blanco 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 |
| Yampa Valley Electric Assn Inc | 2018 | 4.7 hrs | 2.43 | 4.1 hrs | 2.14 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Moon Lake Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| White River Electric Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Deseret Generation & Tran Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,566 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 Blanco County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rio Blanco 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/rio-blanco-county