County annual report · FIPS 08103
2020 Rio Blanco County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Rio Blanco County, CO went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 9,019 customer-hours (Colorado average 2.2 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 57 Colorado counties and 2414th 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 Rio Blanco 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 | August 13, 2020 15:00 | August 27, 2020 19:00 | 14d 4h | 466 | 3,057 |
| 2 | August 10, 2020 15:30 | August 13, 2020 13:45 | 2d 22h | 209 | 921 |
| 3 | November 29, 2020 20:00 | November 30, 2020 01:15 | 5h 15m | 202 | 1,061 |
| 4 | June 30, 2020 18:30 | June 30, 2020 22:15 | 3h 45m | 200 | 352 |
| 5 | September 26, 2020 22:15 | September 27, 2020 00:00 | 1h 45m | 187 | 77 |
| 6 | June 24, 2020 15:15 | June 24, 2020 23:00 | 7h 45m | 176 | 54 |
| 7 | April 12, 2020 08:45 | April 12, 2020 11:15 | 2h 30m | 107 | 268 |
| 8 | July 15, 2020 14:45 | July 15, 2020 15:30 | 45m | 82 | 39 |
| 9 | June 6, 2020 18:45 | June 8, 2020 04:45 | 1d 10h | 62 | 358 |
| 10 | July 23, 2020 06:30 | July 23, 2020 09:00 | 2h 30m | 60 | 79 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 7 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 Rio Blanco 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Moon Lake Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| White River Electric Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Deseret Generation & Tran Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,566 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. Rio Blanco County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rio Blanco 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/rio-blanco-county