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2021 Hinsdale County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Hinsdale County, CO went without power for an average of 7.4 hours, a total of 5,729 customer-hours (Colorado average 2.8 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 992nd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hinsdale County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 11, 2021 02:00 | April 11, 2021 07:00 | 5h | 89 | 445 |
| 2 | June 16, 2021 02:15 | June 16, 2021 05:00 | 2h 45m | 64 | 176 |
| 3 | May 22, 2021 20:45 | May 23, 2021 02:45 | 6h | 57 | 257 |
| 4 | December 25, 2021 09:00 | December 29, 2021 06:45 | 3d 21h | 49 | 3,885 |
| 5 | December 24, 2021 17:45 | December 25, 2021 07:00 | 13h 15m | 48 | 636 |
| 6 | December 15, 2021 12:30 | December 16, 2021 04:30 | 16h | 13 | 208 |
| 7 | April 26, 2021 20:45 | April 26, 2021 22:30 | 1h 45m | 11 | 19 |
| 8 | June 7, 2021 16:00 | June 7, 2021 17:45 | 1h 45m | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | April 7, 2021 15:15 | April 7, 2021 16:15 | 1h | 6 | 4 |
| 10 | April 7, 2021 21:45 | April 7, 2021 22:30 | 45m | 6 | 5 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 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 2021, 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 | 2021 | 3.0 hrs | 1.20 | 2.2 hrs | 1.00 |
| San Luis Valley R E C, Inc | 2021 | 10.8 hrs | 0.12 | 1.9 hrs | 0.09 |
| La Plata Electric Assn, Inc | 2021 | 4.0 hrs | 1.38 | 65 min | 0.73 |
| 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 83% of Colorado's customers in 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/colorado/hinsdale-county