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2022 Chaffee County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Chaffee County, CO went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.6 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2256th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chaffee County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 15, 2022 18:00 | October 15, 2022 18:30 | 30m | 4,878 | 1,249 |
| 2 | January 26, 2022 11:00 | January 26, 2022 15:15 | 4h 15m | 3,492 | 6,380 |
| 3 | May 26, 2022 13:15 | May 26, 2022 19:15 | 6h | 3,033 | 5,662 |
| 4 | January 28, 2022 13:30 | January 28, 2022 14:15 | 45m | 1,466 | 1,100 |
| 5 | August 15, 2022 14:45 | August 15, 2022 16:30 | 1h 45m | 601 | 451 |
| 6 | July 15, 2022 19:30 | July 15, 2022 19:45 | 15m | 543 | 136 |
| 7 | June 27, 2022 13:45 | June 27, 2022 16:30 | 2h 45m | 308 | 568 |
| 8 | November 22, 2022 21:30 | November 23, 2022 01:00 | 3h 30m | 226 | 791 |
| 9 | September 21, 2022 21:30 | September 21, 2022 23:15 | 1h 45m | 224 | 179 |
| 10 | May 29, 2022 21:30 | May 29, 2022 23:45 | 2h 15m | 195 | 438 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 20 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Chaffee County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 2.9 hrs | 1.17 | 1.9 hrs | 1.04 |
| CORE Electric Cooperative | 2022 | 2.3 hrs | 1.06 | 1.7 hrs | 0.92 |
| Sangre De Cristo Elec Assn Inc | 2018 | 2.2 hrs | 1.23 | 2.2 hrs | 1.23 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 12,341 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. Chaffee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chaffee County, CO annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/colorado/chaffee-county