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2022 Rio Grande County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Rio Grande County, CO went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.6 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 1667th 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 Grande 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 16, 2022 18:30 | September 16, 2022 22:45 | 4h 15m | 2,752 | 4,205 |
| 2 | April 20, 2022 19:15 | April 21, 2022 08:30 | 13h 15m | 2,696 | 10K |
| 3 | May 14, 2022 22:00 | May 15, 2022 11:15 | 13h 15m | 2,692 | 6,689 |
| 4 | February 6, 2022 19:00 | February 7, 2022 01:30 | 6h 30m | 756 | 3,446 |
| 5 | July 16, 2022 23:45 | July 17, 2022 01:15 | 1h 30m | 669 | 843 |
| 6 | April 17, 2022 14:15 | April 17, 2022 18:30 | 4h 15m | 232 | 623 |
| 7 | August 23, 2022 01:00 | August 23, 2022 03:45 | 2h 45m | 179 | 205 |
| 8 | May 24, 2022 03:15 | May 24, 2022 13:15 | 10h | 124 | 821 |
| 9 | February 5, 2022 18:00 | February 5, 2022 23:15 | 5h 15m | 104 | 355 |
| 10 | September 22, 2022 06:30 | September 22, 2022 08:00 | 1h 30m | 91 | 137 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 9 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Grande 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 |
| San Luis Valley R E C, Inc | 2022 | 3.8 hrs | 0.14 | 1.8 hrs | 0.10 |
| 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 84% of Colorado's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,555 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 Grande County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rio Grande 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-grande-county