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2022 Rio Blanco County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Rio Blanco County, CO went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 458 customer-hours (Colorado average 2.6 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2927th 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 Rio Blanco 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 23, 2022 09:30 | October 23, 2022 13:45 | 4h 15m | 16 | 68 |
| 2 | November 21, 2022 17:15 | November 21, 2022 17:30 | 15m | 16 | 4 |
| 3 | November 22, 2022 20:45 | November 22, 2022 21:15 | 30m | 16 | 8 |
| 4 | May 6, 2022 19:15 | May 6, 2022 21:30 | 2h 15m | 12 | 27 |
| 5 | May 29, 2022 17:45 | May 29, 2022 19:45 | 2h | 10 | 20 |
| 6 | October 19, 2022 16:30 | October 19, 2022 18:45 | 2h 15m | 10 | 23 |
| 7 | March 25, 2022 06:15 | March 25, 2022 08:30 | 2h 15m | 8 | 18 |
| 8 | March 29, 2022 19:45 | March 29, 2022 22:15 | 2h 30m | 8 | 20 |
| 9 | April 12, 2022 06:00 | April 12, 2022 14:30 | 8h 30m | 8 | 45 |
| 10 | September 22, 2022 20:15 | September 22, 2022 21:45 | 1h 30m | 8 | 10 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 0 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 Rio Blanco 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 |
| Yampa Valley Electric Assn Inc | 2022 | 3.2 hrs | 1.39 | 3.2 hrs | 1.39 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Moon Lake Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| White River Electric Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Deseret Generation & Tran Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,566 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 Blanco County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rio Blanco 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/rio-blanco-county