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2023 Hinsdale County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Hinsdale County, CO went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 1,701 customer-hours (Colorado average 2.1 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2216th 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 Hinsdale 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 | January 2, 2023 03:30 | January 2, 2023 21:00 | 17h 30m | 91 | 732 |
| 2 | December 13, 2023 06:30 | December 13, 2023 11:15 | 4h 45m | 91 | 432 |
| 3 | March 11, 2023 07:45 | March 11, 2023 19:00 | 11h 15m | 46 | 394 |
| 4 | March 22, 2023 10:15 | March 22, 2023 17:00 | 6h 45m | 46 | 118 |
| 5 | May 16, 2023 17:30 | May 16, 2023 18:45 | 1h 15m | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | January 1, 2023 23:15 | January 2, 2023 00:45 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | January 2, 2023 01:30 | January 2, 2023 02:15 | 45m | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | January 13, 2023 01:30 | January 13, 2023 02:15 | 45m | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | January 17, 2023 13:45 | January 17, 2023 15:15 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | March 14, 2023 01:15 | March 14, 2023 01:30 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 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 Hinsdale 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 |
| San Luis Valley R E C, Inc | 2023 | 2.7 hrs | 0.10 | 1.7 hrs | 0.08 |
| La Plata Electric Assn, Inc | 2023 | 2.2 hrs | 1.36 | 84 min | 0.91 |
| Gunnison County Elec Assn. | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 773 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. Hinsdale County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hinsdale 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/hinsdale-county