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2020 Garfield County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Garfield County, CO went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 106K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.2 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 57 Colorado counties and 1865th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Garfield County, 2020
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 13, 2020 14:15 | July 14, 2020 03:00 | 12h 45m | 5,958 | 5,673 |
| 2 | May 17, 2020 01:45 | May 17, 2020 08:00 | 6h 15m | 4,944 | 6,012 |
| 3 | October 26, 2020 15:45 | October 26, 2020 23:15 | 7h 30m | 3,802 | 10K |
| 4 | October 27, 2020 13:30 | October 27, 2020 21:30 | 8h | 3,570 | 5,325 |
| 5 | September 17, 2020 00:30 | September 17, 2020 02:30 | 2h | 3,380 | 5,966 |
| 6 | February 3, 2020 22:15 | February 4, 2020 02:45 | 4h 30m | 3,247 | 3,289 |
| 7 | June 30, 2020 11:30 | June 30, 2020 14:15 | 2h 45m | 2,628 | 668 |
| 8 | September 7, 2020 20:45 | September 7, 2020 23:00 | 2h 15m | 1,932 | 688 |
| 9 | May 11, 2020 13:15 | May 11, 2020 21:00 | 7h 45m | 1,866 | 3,330 |
| 10 | June 30, 2020 15:00 | June 30, 2020 19:00 | 4h | 1,825 | 492 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 78 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Garfield County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 2.3 hrs | 1.03 | 83 min | 0.85 |
| Holy Cross Electric Assn, Inc | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.56 | 78 min | 1.17 |
| Grand Valley Power | 2020 | 45 min | - | 45 min | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Moon Lake Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Holy Cross Electric Assn, Inc,holycrossenergy | - | - | - | - | - |
| White River Electric Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Glenwood Springs - (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 84% of Colorado's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 34,904 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. Garfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Garfield County, CO annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/colorado/garfield-county