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2023 La Plata County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in La Plata County, CO went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 116K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.1 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 1914th 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 La Plata 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 | August 3, 2023 01:45 | August 3, 2023 04:15 | 2h 30m | 9,426 | 21K |
| 2 | November 25, 2023 00:30 | November 26, 2023 04:30 | 1d 4h | 5,549 | 13K |
| 3 | January 17, 2023 08:00 | January 17, 2023 22:45 | 14h 45m | 4,293 | 6,916 |
| 4 | January 15, 2023 12:30 | January 16, 2023 01:45 | 13h 15m | 4,124 | 2,417 |
| 5 | September 18, 2023 23:00 | September 19, 2023 07:30 | 8h 30m | 2,840 | 11K |
| 6 | January 1, 2023 20:30 | January 2, 2023 11:30 | 15h | 2,631 | 9,580 |
| 7 | April 14, 2023 21:30 | April 15, 2023 04:30 | 7h | 1,561 | 5,090 |
| 8 | February 1, 2023 11:45 | February 1, 2023 20:00 | 8h 15m | 1,354 | 3,049 |
| 9 | November 12, 2023 14:15 | November 13, 2023 22:30 | 1d 8h | 1,325 | 1,236 |
| 10 | March 11, 2023 12:15 | March 11, 2023 18:45 | 6h 30m | 1,291 | 2,306 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 46 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 La Plata 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 |
| La Plata Electric Assn, Inc | 2023 | 2.2 hrs | 1.36 | 84 min | 0.91 |
| 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 ÷ 36,986 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. La Plata County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), La Plata 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/la-plata-county