County annual report · FIPS 08045
2023 Garfield County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Garfield County, CO went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 117K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.1 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 1846th 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 Garfield 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 | November 9, 2023 15:30 | November 9, 2023 18:45 | 3h 15m | 6,120 | 8,643 |
| 2 | September 29, 2023 14:15 | September 29, 2023 16:00 | 1h 45m | 6,116 | 11K |
| 3 | August 25, 2023 13:00 | August 25, 2023 21:30 | 8h 30m | 5,310 | 4,568 |
| 4 | June 7, 2023 15:45 | June 7, 2023 23:15 | 7h 30m | 4,471 | 1,840 |
| 5 | November 6, 2023 15:30 | November 6, 2023 19:00 | 3h 30m | 3,060 | 3,828 |
| 6 | August 24, 2023 22:30 | August 25, 2023 07:00 | 8h 30m | 2,704 | 1,668 |
| 7 | March 21, 2023 14:45 | March 21, 2023 20:15 | 5h 30m | 2,661 | 2,755 |
| 8 | May 20, 2023 18:30 | May 21, 2023 01:30 | 7h | 2,632 | 2,648 |
| 9 | April 4, 2023 01:45 | April 4, 2023 10:45 | 9h | 2,585 | 4,374 |
| 10 | January 22, 2023 21:30 | January 23, 2023 00:30 | 3h | 1,576 | 3,055 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 73 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Garfield 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 |
| Holy Cross Electric Assn, Inc | 2023 | 61 min | 0.85 | 61 min | 0.85 |
| Grand Valley Power | 2023 | 68 min | - | 68 min | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Moon Lake Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Holy Cross Electric Assn, Inc,holycrossenergy | - | - | - | - | - |
| White River Electric Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Glenwood Springs - (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 n/a of Colorado's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 34,904 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. Garfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Garfield 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/garfield-county