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2021 Mineral County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Mineral County, CO went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 1,516 customer-hours (Colorado average 2.8 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2249th 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 Mineral 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 | May 4, 2021 00:30 | May 4, 2021 01:45 | 1h 15m | 39 | 49 |
| 2 | December 10, 2021 12:45 | December 11, 2021 22:30 | 1d 9h | 37 | 340 |
| 3 | December 15, 2021 12:15 | December 16, 2021 04:30 | 16h 15m | 37 | 160 |
| 4 | December 24, 2021 17:30 | December 25, 2021 08:45 | 15h 15m | 37 | 147 |
| 5 | May 10, 2021 23:00 | May 11, 2021 00:00 | 1h | 36 | 36 |
| 6 | September 22, 2021 17:15 | September 22, 2021 19:00 | 1h 45m | 36 | 63 |
| 7 | September 23, 2021 16:00 | September 23, 2021 19:15 | 3h 15m | 36 | 117 |
| 8 | October 27, 2021 22:00 | October 28, 2021 00:15 | 2h 15m | 36 | 81 |
| 9 | November 4, 2021 14:45 | November 4, 2021 18:30 | 3h 45m | 36 | 135 |
| 10 | December 24, 2021 01:00 | December 24, 2021 03:15 | 2h 15m | 36 | 81 |
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 Mineral 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 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/mineral-county