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2024 La Plata County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in La Plata County, CO went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 93K customer-hours (Colorado average 4.7 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2263rd 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 La Plata 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 | March 1, 2024 21:15 | March 1, 2024 23:00 | 1h 45m | 9,448 | 10K |
| 2 | August 6, 2024 19:30 | August 6, 2024 19:45 | 15m | 3,335 | 834 |
| 3 | November 19, 2024 15:30 | November 19, 2024 22:15 | 6h 45m | 2,866 | 4,305 |
| 4 | June 2, 2024 05:45 | June 2, 2024 13:30 | 7h 45m | 2,851 | 9,449 |
| 5 | November 8, 2024 04:15 | November 8, 2024 07:45 | 3h 30m | 2,098 | 6,837 |
| 6 | March 2, 2024 02:00 | March 2, 2024 04:00 | 2h | 1,875 | 480 |
| 7 | August 11, 2024 04:45 | August 11, 2024 21:00 | 16h 15m | 1,391 | 22K |
| 8 | September 15, 2024 00:15 | September 19, 2024 23:00 | 4d 22h | 1,253 | 1,821 |
| 9 | October 18, 2024 15:30 | October 18, 2024 15:45 | 15m | 1,235 | 309 |
| 10 | November 14, 2024 16:00 | November 15, 2024 01:00 | 9h | 1,051 | 458 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 38 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 La Plata 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 |
| La Plata Electric Assn, Inc | 2024 | 3.1 hrs | 1.44 | 72 min | 1.02 |
| 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 ÷ 36,986 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. La Plata County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), La Plata 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/la-plata-county