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2022 Montrose County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Montrose County, CO went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.6 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2543rd 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 Montrose 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 | September 13, 2022 20:30 | September 15, 2022 00:15 | 1d 3h | 5,432 | 2,809 |
| 2 | December 28, 2022 04:15 | December 28, 2022 07:15 | 3h | 2,841 | 4,696 |
| 3 | September 30, 2022 19:00 | September 30, 2022 21:30 | 2h 30m | 2,056 | 661 |
| 4 | July 6, 2022 20:30 | July 6, 2022 23:30 | 3h | 2,024 | 1,018 |
| 5 | March 24, 2022 23:15 | March 24, 2022 23:45 | 30m | 1,159 | 580 |
| 6 | September 30, 2022 23:45 | October 1, 2022 01:45 | 2h | 1,114 | 1,393 |
| 7 | August 12, 2022 23:15 | August 13, 2022 02:45 | 3h 30m | 1,097 | 1,373 |
| 8 | May 8, 2022 20:30 | May 9, 2022 07:00 | 10h 30m | 827 | 1,849 |
| 9 | June 26, 2022 12:30 | June 27, 2022 02:15 | 13h 45m | 790 | 584 |
| 10 | December 3, 2022 02:00 | December 3, 2022 07:15 | 5h 15m | 730 | 983 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 37 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Montrose 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 |
| Delta Montrose Electric Assn | 2013 | 89 min | 0.64 | 47 min | 0.48 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| San Miguel Power Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 24,974 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. Montrose County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montrose 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/montrose-county