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2023 Pitkin County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Pitkin County, CO went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.1 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2368th 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 Pitkin 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 | March 30, 2023 08:00 | March 30, 2023 09:30 | 1h 30m | 2,354 | 2,613 |
| 2 | August 19, 2023 01:45 | August 19, 2023 05:30 | 3h 45m | 1,342 | 3,869 |
| 3 | August 2, 2023 00:30 | August 2, 2023 02:45 | 2h 15m | 1,207 | 942 |
| 4 | October 29, 2023 03:30 | November 6, 2023 12:45 | 8d 9h | 839 | 5,192 |
| 5 | November 9, 2023 13:45 | November 9, 2023 17:15 | 3h 30m | 513 | 1,160 |
| 6 | April 6, 2023 07:00 | April 6, 2023 09:45 | 2h 45m | 509 | 1,400 |
| 7 | June 15, 2023 22:15 | June 15, 2023 22:45 | 30m | 321 | 161 |
| 8 | April 10, 2023 16:00 | April 10, 2023 16:15 | 15m | 288 | 72 |
| 9 | May 17, 2023 19:30 | May 17, 2023 21:15 | 1h 45m | 288 | 313 |
| 10 | August 25, 2023 01:45 | August 25, 2023 03:45 | 2h | 288 | 76 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 18 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Pitkin 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 |
| Holy Cross Electric Assn, Inc,holycrossenergy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Aspen- (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 ÷ 12,768 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. Pitkin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pitkin 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/pitkin-county