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2024 Rio Grande County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Rio Grande County, CO went without power for an average of 10.3 hours, a total of 78K customer-hours (Colorado average 4.7 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 906th 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 Grande 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 24, 2024 06:15 | March 24, 2024 20:15 | 14h | 5,402 | 53K |
| 2 | May 10, 2024 02:00 | May 11, 2024 04:00 | 1d 2h | 4,661 | 15K |
| 3 | July 10, 2024 15:30 | July 10, 2024 15:45 | 15m | 4,283 | 1,071 |
| 4 | April 2, 2024 23:15 | April 2, 2024 23:45 | 30m | 4,264 | 1,417 |
| 5 | February 1, 2024 17:00 | February 1, 2024 17:30 | 30m | 813 | 204 |
| 6 | December 6, 2024 16:45 | December 6, 2024 17:00 | 15m | 729 | 182 |
| 7 | November 23, 2024 20:00 | November 24, 2024 01:45 | 5h 45m | 622 | 917 |
| 8 | February 19, 2024 22:45 | February 20, 2024 00:30 | 1h 45m | 460 | 729 |
| 9 | July 9, 2024 21:15 | July 10, 2024 02:45 | 5h 30m | 230 | 361 |
| 10 | October 20, 2024 21:45 | October 21, 2024 00:15 | 2h 30m | 172 | 343 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 11 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Grande 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 |
| San Luis Valley R E C, Inc | 2024 | 4.9 hrs | 1.78 | 1.6 hrs | 0.89 |
| 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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,555 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 Grande County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rio Grande 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-grande-county