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2024 Chaffee County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Chaffee County, CO went without power for an average of 9.1 hours, a total of 112K customer-hours (Colorado average 4.7 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 999th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chaffee County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 10, 2024 06:45 | May 11, 2024 06:45 | 1d | 4,448 | 45K |
| 2 | August 13, 2024 20:00 | August 13, 2024 21:15 | 1h 15m | 3,808 | 2,856 |
| 3 | July 18, 2024 01:45 | July 18, 2024 03:15 | 1h 30m | 3,803 | 3,804 |
| 4 | October 15, 2024 20:00 | October 15, 2024 22:45 | 2h 45m | 2,179 | 2,180 |
| 5 | July 13, 2024 11:45 | July 13, 2024 21:00 | 9h 15m | 2,160 | 11K |
| 6 | August 22, 2024 06:45 | August 22, 2024 11:15 | 4h 30m | 2,106 | 3,928 |
| 7 | August 3, 2024 04:30 | August 3, 2024 20:15 | 15h 45m | 1,497 | 17K |
| 8 | December 4, 2024 16:15 | December 4, 2024 23:45 | 7h 30m | 1,454 | 814 |
| 9 | October 10, 2024 14:45 | October 10, 2024 23:45 | 9h | 1,448 | 797 |
| 10 | July 29, 2024 12:30 | July 29, 2024 22:15 | 9h 45m | 1,437 | 9,700 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 21 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Chaffee County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 5.9 hrs | 1.68 | 2.6 hrs | 1.36 |
| CORE Electric Cooperative | 2024 | 3.5 hrs | 0.93 | 74 min | 0.75 |
| Sangre De Cristo Elec Assn Inc | 2018 | 2.2 hrs | 1.23 | 2.2 hrs | 1.23 |
| 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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 12,341 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. Chaffee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chaffee County, CO annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/colorado/chaffee-county