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2024 Montrose County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Montrose County, CO went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 64K customer-hours (Colorado average 4.7 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2232nd 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 Montrose 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 | November 3, 2024 06:30 | November 3, 2024 08:15 | 1h 45m | 6,633 | 8,293 |
| 2 | September 6, 2024 20:30 | September 6, 2024 23:45 | 3h 15m | 5,863 | 10K |
| 3 | August 12, 2024 02:30 | August 12, 2024 13:00 | 10h 30m | 3,621 | 14K |
| 4 | October 16, 2024 20:15 | October 17, 2024 01:00 | 4h 45m | 1,900 | 652 |
| 5 | December 5, 2024 21:00 | December 5, 2024 21:15 | 15m | 1,123 | 281 |
| 6 | March 2, 2024 18:45 | March 3, 2024 10:15 | 15h 30m | 953 | 4,372 |
| 7 | August 26, 2024 01:30 | August 26, 2024 18:15 | 16h 45m | 873 | 3,998 |
| 8 | December 31, 2024 03:45 | December 31, 2024 06:15 | 2h 30m | 792 | 1,801 |
| 9 | May 26, 2024 00:15 | May 26, 2024 02:00 | 1h 45m | 627 | 943 |
| 10 | April 18, 2024 18:00 | April 18, 2024 23:45 | 5h 45m | 532 | 1,778 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 27 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 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 |
| Delta Montrose Electric Assn | 2024 | 2.6 hrs | 1.42 | 1.6 hrs | - |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/montrose-county