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2021 Saguache County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Saguache County, CO went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 3,757 customer-hours (Colorado average 2.8 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2603rd 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 Saguache 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 | February 22, 2021 15:00 | February 22, 2021 18:15 | 3h 15m | 645 | 2,002 |
| 2 | November 29, 2021 18:15 | November 29, 2021 19:45 | 1h 30m | 122 | 183 |
| 3 | November 30, 2021 02:15 | November 30, 2021 03:15 | 1h | 122 | 122 |
| 4 | April 15, 2021 14:45 | April 15, 2021 19:00 | 4h 15m | 89 | 360 |
| 5 | August 20, 2021 21:00 | August 20, 2021 22:45 | 1h 45m | 70 | 123 |
| 6 | November 9, 2021 19:00 | November 9, 2021 23:00 | 4h | 56 | 189 |
| 7 | May 23, 2021 01:15 | May 23, 2021 10:15 | 9h | 52 | 362 |
| 8 | May 3, 2021 23:00 | May 4, 2021 01:30 | 2h 30m | 41 | 88 |
| 9 | June 15, 2021 17:30 | June 15, 2021 19:45 | 2h 15m | 35 | 63 |
| 10 | July 23, 2021 00:45 | July 23, 2021 04:15 | 3h 30m | 11 | 39 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 3 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 Saguache 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 |
| Sangre De Cristo Elec Assn Inc | 2018 | 2.2 hrs | 1.23 | 2.2 hrs | 1.23 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Gunnison County Elec Assn. | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 3,260 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. Saguache County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Saguache 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/saguache-county