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2021 Rio Grande County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Rio Grande County, CO went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 7,961 customer-hours (Colorado average 2.8 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2642nd 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 Rio Grande 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 | March 11, 2021 07:00 | March 11, 2021 08:15 | 1h 15m | 1,017 | 1,271 |
| 2 | August 31, 2021 20:15 | August 31, 2021 22:00 | 1h 45m | 1,001 | 1,171 |
| 3 | May 16, 2021 03:15 | May 16, 2021 05:45 | 2h 30m | 258 | 575 |
| 4 | July 11, 2021 15:15 | July 11, 2021 22:45 | 7h 30m | 231 | 774 |
| 5 | September 30, 2021 13:15 | September 30, 2021 17:30 | 4h 15m | 231 | 434 |
| 6 | January 24, 2021 15:30 | January 24, 2021 15:45 | 15m | 206 | 52 |
| 7 | May 3, 2021 23:00 | May 4, 2021 02:00 | 3h | 185 | 342 |
| 8 | May 10, 2021 16:00 | May 10, 2021 22:00 | 6h | 160 | 323 |
| 9 | December 15, 2021 13:00 | December 17, 2021 12:45 | 1d 23h | 122 | 753 |
| 10 | June 12, 2021 03:30 | June 12, 2021 05:15 | 1h 45m | 93 | 134 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 9 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
| 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 83% of Colorado's customers in 2021; 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, 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/rio-grande-county