County annual report · FIPS 08103
2024 Rio Blanco County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Rio Blanco County, CO went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 1,075 customer-hours (Colorado average 4.7 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2917th 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 Rio Blanco 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 | October 6, 2024 18:30 | October 7, 2024 02:00 | 7h 30m | 15 | 113 |
| 2 | April 23, 2024 15:15 | April 23, 2024 18:00 | 2h 45m | 12 | 33 |
| 3 | August 7, 2024 22:30 | August 8, 2024 06:45 | 8h 15m | 10 | 83 |
| 4 | October 13, 2024 01:15 | October 13, 2024 05:00 | 3h 45m | 10 | 38 |
| 5 | June 18, 2024 05:00 | June 18, 2024 07:00 | 2h | 9 | 18 |
| 6 | July 28, 2024 01:30 | July 28, 2024 02:45 | 1h 15m | 9 | 11 |
| 7 | March 2, 2024 23:45 | March 4, 2024 19:00 | 1d 19h | 8 | 344 |
| 8 | April 21, 2024 06:00 | April 21, 2024 07:30 | 1h 30m | 8 | 12 |
| 9 | April 22, 2024 19:30 | April 22, 2024 22:00 | 2h 30m | 8 | 20 |
| 10 | May 6, 2024 05:30 | May 6, 2024 10:30 | 5h | 8 | 40 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 0 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 Rio Blanco 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 |
| Yampa Valley Electric Assn Inc | 2024 | 4.9 hrs | 2.20 | 3.9 hrs | 1.94 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Moon Lake Electric Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| White River Electric Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Deseret Generation & Tran Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,566 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. Rio Blanco County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rio Blanco 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/rio-blanco-county