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2020 Hinsdale County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Hinsdale County, CO went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 406 customer-hours (Colorado average 2.2 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 57 Colorado counties and 2817th 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 Hinsdale 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 | November 8, 2020 14:15 | November 8, 2020 19:30 | 5h 15m | 49 | 257 |
| 2 | November 8, 2020 07:15 | November 8, 2020 11:00 | 3h 45m | 14 | 27 |
| 3 | August 20, 2020 20:30 | August 20, 2020 22:45 | 2h 15m | 13 | 29 |
| 4 | June 2, 2020 15:15 | June 2, 2020 17:30 | 2h 15m | 5 | 11 |
| 5 | July 21, 2020 12:30 | July 21, 2020 14:45 | 2h 15m | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | June 23, 2020 01:45 | June 23, 2020 08:45 | 7h | 4 | 22 |
| 7 | March 19, 2020 09:30 | March 19, 2020 14:45 | 5h 15m | 3 | 16 |
| 8 | August 19, 2020 16:45 | August 19, 2020 18:45 | 2h | 3 | 4 |
| 9 | November 5, 2020 20:45 | November 5, 2020 22:15 | 1h 30m | 3 | 5 |
| 10 | April 20, 2020 21:00 | April 20, 2020 22:00 | 1h | 2 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 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 Hinsdale 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 |
| San Luis Valley R E C, Inc | 2020 | 4.8 hrs | 0.13 | 1.6 hrs | 0.07 |
| La Plata Electric Assn, Inc | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.92 | 41 min | 0.47 |
| Gunnison County Elec Assn. | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 773 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. Hinsdale County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hinsdale 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/hinsdale-county