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2023 Chaffee County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Chaffee County, CO went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 56K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.1 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 1561st of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chaffee County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 14, 2023 12:45 | May 14, 2023 21:00 | 8h 15m | 7,836 | 24K |
| 2 | April 26, 2023 09:30 | April 26, 2023 21:15 | 11h 45m | 4,726 | 6,957 |
| 3 | June 28, 2023 07:30 | June 28, 2023 21:15 | 13h 45m | 3,704 | 8,739 |
| 4 | May 26, 2023 20:30 | May 27, 2023 01:15 | 4h 45m | 3,692 | 3,954 |
| 5 | June 6, 2023 18:00 | June 7, 2023 02:15 | 8h 15m | 2,716 | 2,837 |
| 6 | August 23, 2023 14:45 | August 23, 2023 23:30 | 8h 45m | 2,568 | 1,825 |
| 7 | April 25, 2023 17:30 | April 25, 2023 18:45 | 1h 15m | 500 | 313 |
| 8 | March 9, 2023 08:15 | March 9, 2023 12:45 | 4h 30m | 356 | 1,425 |
| 9 | November 17, 2023 22:15 | November 17, 2023 23:45 | 1h 30m | 261 | 392 |
| 10 | June 8, 2023 02:15 | June 8, 2023 11:15 | 9h | 236 | 1,388 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 14 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Chaffee County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 | 1.7 hrs | 0.98 |
| CORE Electric Cooperative | 2023 | 2.0 hrs | 0.90 | 64 min | 0.77 |
| Sangre De Cristo Elec Assn Inc | 2018 | 2.2 hrs | 1.23 | 2.2 hrs | 1.23 |
| 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 n/a of Colorado's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 12,341 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. Chaffee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chaffee County, CO annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/colorado/chaffee-county