County annual report · FIPS 08105
2020 Rio Grande County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Rio Grande County, CO went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.2 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 57 Colorado counties and 2128th 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 Grande 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 | June 10, 2020 02:30 | June 10, 2020 09:00 | 6h 30m | 2,693 | 5,696 |
| 2 | July 23, 2020 14:45 | July 23, 2020 16:45 | 2h | 850 | 405 |
| 3 | September 1, 2020 12:15 | September 1, 2020 16:30 | 4h 15m | 828 | 894 |
| 4 | June 6, 2020 18:30 | June 8, 2020 05:00 | 1d 10h | 535 | 2,018 |
| 5 | August 28, 2020 11:00 | August 28, 2020 11:15 | 15m | 506 | 127 |
| 6 | September 9, 2020 00:30 | September 11, 2020 21:00 | 2d 20h | 465 | 4,678 |
| 7 | March 22, 2020 18:00 | March 22, 2020 20:00 | 2h | 391 | 490 |
| 8 | October 11, 2020 16:45 | October 12, 2020 23:00 | 1d 6h | 188 | 561 |
| 9 | December 22, 2020 23:00 | December 23, 2020 02:30 | 3h 30m | 179 | 379 |
| 10 | April 26, 2020 22:30 | April 27, 2020 02:00 | 3h 30m | 87 | 282 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 9 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 Rio Grande 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 |
| City of Center - (CO) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,555 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 Grande County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rio Grande 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-grande-county