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2020 La Plata County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in La Plata County, CO went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 72K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.2 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 57 Colorado counties and 2278th 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 La Plata 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 | March 19, 2020 07:30 | March 20, 2020 01:15 | 17h 45m | 6,688 | 19K |
| 2 | May 19, 2020 21:15 | May 20, 2020 03:45 | 6h 30m | 5,612 | 14K |
| 3 | July 23, 2020 07:30 | July 23, 2020 14:00 | 6h 30m | 2,785 | 13K |
| 4 | July 23, 2020 21:15 | July 24, 2020 05:15 | 8h | 1,985 | 1,090 |
| 5 | November 17, 2020 15:15 | November 17, 2020 21:15 | 6h | 1,984 | 1,910 |
| 6 | December 3, 2020 19:00 | December 3, 2020 23:15 | 4h 15m | 1,276 | 589 |
| 7 | June 6, 2020 17:30 | June 7, 2020 02:00 | 8h 30m | 1,219 | 2,515 |
| 8 | October 25, 2020 20:30 | October 26, 2020 04:00 | 7h 30m | 1,050 | 1,204 |
| 9 | December 21, 2020 11:00 | December 21, 2020 20:15 | 9h 15m | 1,006 | 263 |
| 10 | June 4, 2020 20:30 | June 5, 2020 02:00 | 5h 30m | 704 | 1,940 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 23 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 La Plata 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 |
| La Plata Electric Assn, Inc | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.92 | 41 min | 0.47 |
| 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 ÷ 36,986 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. La Plata County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), La Plata 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/la-plata-county