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2023 Montrose County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Montrose County, CO went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 47K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.1 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2329th 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 Montrose 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 | June 29, 2023 19:30 | June 30, 2023 00:30 | 5h | 6,479 | 3,246 |
| 2 | July 6, 2023 14:45 | July 6, 2023 18:00 | 3h 15m | 2,563 | 1,284 |
| 3 | November 29, 2023 14:45 | November 29, 2023 18:45 | 4h | 2,127 | 5,357 |
| 4 | October 28, 2023 14:45 | November 1, 2023 14:00 | 3d 23h | 1,139 | 3,487 |
| 5 | July 25, 2023 12:15 | July 25, 2023 19:45 | 7h 30m | 1,134 | 621 |
| 6 | November 9, 2023 14:15 | November 10, 2023 00:30 | 10h 15m | 1,130 | 1,797 |
| 7 | July 30, 2023 22:30 | July 31, 2023 06:45 | 8h 15m | 1,124 | 1,713 |
| 8 | October 25, 2023 15:15 | October 25, 2023 19:15 | 4h | 1,119 | 1,789 |
| 9 | July 2, 2023 22:15 | July 3, 2023 04:30 | 6h 15m | 1,115 | 3,905 |
| 10 | May 31, 2023 17:30 | June 1, 2023 13:30 | 20h | 889 | 2,351 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 35 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Montrose 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 |
| Delta Montrose Electric Assn | 2013 | 89 min | 0.64 | 47 min | 0.48 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| San Miguel Power Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 24,974 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. Montrose County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montrose 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/montrose-county