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2022 Saguache County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Saguache County, CO went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 8,119 customer-hours (Colorado average 2.6 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2107th 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 Saguache 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 | March 7, 2022 19:45 | March 8, 2022 02:00 | 6h 15m | 875 | 4,915 |
| 2 | August 9, 2022 00:00 | August 9, 2022 03:00 | 3h | 148 | 347 |
| 3 | September 19, 2022 14:30 | September 19, 2022 20:00 | 5h 30m | 148 | 777 |
| 4 | August 2, 2022 14:30 | August 2, 2022 17:00 | 2h 30m | 147 | 329 |
| 5 | August 29, 2022 19:15 | August 29, 2022 21:45 | 2h 30m | 147 | 358 |
| 6 | October 18, 2022 14:15 | October 18, 2022 17:30 | 3h 15m | 100 | 276 |
| 7 | May 24, 2022 03:15 | May 24, 2022 13:15 | 10h | 56 | 365 |
| 8 | December 22, 2022 22:45 | December 22, 2022 23:15 | 30m | 47 | 24 |
| 9 | August 7, 2022 23:45 | August 8, 2022 12:45 | 13h | 41 | 473 |
| 10 | April 22, 2022 23:45 | April 23, 2022 03:15 | 3h 30m | 38 | 16 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 6 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 Saguache 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 |
| Sangre De Cristo Elec Assn Inc | 2018 | 2.2 hrs | 1.23 | 2.2 hrs | 1.23 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Gunnison County Elec Assn. | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 3,260 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. Saguache County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Saguache 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/saguache-county