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2020 Mineral County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Mineral County, CO went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 275 customer-hours (Colorado average 2.2 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 57 Colorado counties and 2864th 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 Mineral 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 25, 2020 20:30 | September 26, 2020 00:15 | 3h 45m | 34 | 128 |
| 2 | November 27, 2020 19:45 | November 27, 2020 22:00 | 2h 15m | 34 | 68 |
| 3 | May 11, 2020 23:45 | May 12, 2020 00:00 | 15m | 28 | 7 |
| 4 | May 12, 2020 01:00 | May 12, 2020 01:15 | 15m | 28 | 7 |
| 5 | March 17, 2020 20:15 | March 17, 2020 23:30 | 3h 15m | 4 | 13 |
| 6 | March 18, 2020 14:45 | March 18, 2020 17:45 | 3h | 4 | 12 |
| 7 | April 23, 2020 20:00 | April 23, 2020 22:00 | 2h | 4 | 7 |
| 8 | July 28, 2020 17:15 | July 28, 2020 18:15 | 1h | 4 | 2 |
| 9 | August 26, 2020 14:45 | August 26, 2020 16:15 | 1h 30m | 4 | 4 |
| 10 | July 27, 2020 17:15 | July 27, 2020 18:15 | 1h | 2 | 1 |
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 Mineral 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 |
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 ÷ 793 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. Mineral County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mineral 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/mineral-county