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2023 Mineral County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Mineral County, CO went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 1,314 customer-hours (Colorado average 2.1 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2421st 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 Mineral 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 | July 18, 2023 20:30 | July 18, 2023 20:45 | 15m | 82 | 21 |
| 2 | July 20, 2023 02:15 | July 20, 2023 03:30 | 1h 15m | 82 | 103 |
| 3 | May 21, 2023 00:45 | May 21, 2023 02:45 | 2h | 41 | 82 |
| 4 | August 21, 2023 20:30 | August 21, 2023 22:30 | 2h | 38 | 76 |
| 5 | August 22, 2023 20:15 | August 22, 2023 23:00 | 2h 45m | 38 | 105 |
| 6 | October 1, 2023 01:15 | October 1, 2023 05:00 | 3h 45m | 38 | 143 |
| 7 | August 28, 2023 19:00 | August 29, 2023 02:45 | 7h 45m | 12 | 62 |
| 8 | March 22, 2023 19:45 | March 27, 2023 17:30 | 4d 21h | 6 | 695 |
| 9 | August 9, 2023 15:15 | August 9, 2023 19:00 | 3h 45m | 4 | 15 |
| 10 | January 2, 2023 14:45 | January 2, 2023 16:15 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
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 Mineral 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 |
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 ÷ 793 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. Mineral County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mineral 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/mineral-county