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2023 Saguache County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Saguache County, CO went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 2,395 customer-hours (Colorado average 2.1 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2757th 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 Saguache 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 | December 16, 2023 16:30 | December 16, 2023 20:45 | 4h 15m | 332 | 1,411 |
| 2 | May 11, 2023 17:30 | May 12, 2023 02:15 | 8h 45m | 150 | 586 |
| 3 | July 24, 2023 22:00 | July 25, 2023 03:45 | 5h 45m | 22 | 91 |
| 4 | July 22, 2023 14:30 | July 23, 2023 03:30 | 13h | 10 | 109 |
| 5 | August 28, 2023 19:00 | August 29, 2023 04:00 | 9h | 8 | 39 |
| 6 | May 5, 2023 14:30 | May 5, 2023 16:00 | 1h 30m | 7 | 8 |
| 7 | December 13, 2023 19:15 | December 13, 2023 21:00 | 1h 45m | 7 | 12 |
| 8 | May 21, 2023 12:15 | May 21, 2023 16:30 | 4h 15m | 4 | 15 |
| 9 | December 4, 2023 21:15 | December 4, 2023 22:30 | 1h 15m | 4 | 3 |
| 10 | March 2, 2023 17:45 | March 2, 2023 20:00 | 2h 15m | 3 | 7 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 2 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 Saguache 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 |
| Sangre De Cristo Elec Assn Inc | 2018 | 2.2 hrs | 1.23 | 2.2 hrs | 1.23 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Gunnison County Elec Assn. | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Center - (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 ÷ 3,260 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. Saguache County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Saguache 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/saguache-county