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2022 La Plata County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in La Plata County, CO went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 180K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.6 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 1447th 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 La Plata 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 | June 23, 2022 20:00 | June 23, 2022 23:30 | 3h 30m | 5,282 | 4,330 |
| 2 | June 3, 2022 19:00 | June 4, 2022 05:45 | 10h 45m | 5,275 | 24K |
| 3 | December 28, 2022 10:00 | December 29, 2022 04:45 | 18h 45m | 4,789 | 24K |
| 4 | March 17, 2022 16:00 | March 17, 2022 23:00 | 7h | 2,953 | 1,001 |
| 5 | July 5, 2022 20:45 | July 5, 2022 22:30 | 1h 45m | 2,901 | 5,029 |
| 6 | December 31, 2022 14:15 | December 31, 2022 17:00 | 2h 45m | 2,774 | 5,416 |
| 7 | March 24, 2022 12:15 | March 24, 2022 13:00 | 45m | 2,756 | 1,373 |
| 8 | May 10, 2022 14:45 | May 10, 2022 17:15 | 2h 30m | 1,953 | 1,955 |
| 9 | September 11, 2022 04:15 | September 11, 2022 05:15 | 1h | 1,263 | 1,262 |
| 10 | December 16, 2022 14:15 | December 16, 2022 21:30 | 7h 15m | 1,193 | 8,636 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 53 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 La Plata 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 |
| La Plata Electric Assn, Inc | 2022 | 2.4 hrs | 1.48 | 84 min | 1.22 |
| 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 ÷ 36,986 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. La Plata County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), La Plata 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/la-plata-county