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2020 Grand County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Grand County, CO went without power for an average of 6.3 hours, a total of 120K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.2 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 57 Colorado counties and 1194th 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 Grand 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 | September 8, 2020 11:00 | September 11, 2020 08:15 | 2d 21h | 1,163 | 13K |
| 2 | July 13, 2020 17:30 | July 14, 2020 19:00 | 1d 1h | 888 | 1,938 |
| 3 | August 24, 2020 04:00 | August 24, 2020 04:45 | 45m | 888 | 490 |
| 4 | June 1, 2020 14:15 | June 4, 2020 20:30 | 3d 6h | 692 | 946 |
| 5 | June 19, 2020 18:15 | June 23, 2020 12:00 | 3d 17h | 433 | 1,080 |
| 6 | November 12, 2020 11:45 | November 18, 2020 23:00 | 6d 11h | 371 | 2,162 |
| 7 | December 8, 2020 18:45 | December 8, 2020 19:45 | 1h | 304 | 87 |
| 8 | September 13, 2020 02:15 | October 15, 2020 08:45 | 32d 6h | 292 | 72K |
| 9 | April 16, 2020 08:15 | April 16, 2020 22:00 | 13h 45m | 251 | 232 |
| 10 | November 29, 2020 20:00 | November 30, 2020 01:15 | 5h 15m | 205 | 1,062 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 21 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Grand 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 |
| Yampa Valley Electric Assn Inc | 2020 | 2.8 hrs | 1.69 | 2.9 hrs | 1.46 |
| Mountain Parks Electric, Inc | 2020 | 14.8 hrs | 0.90 | 90 min | 0.40 |
| 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 84% of Colorado's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,092 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. Grand County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Grand 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/grand-county