Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Archuleta County Colorado

8.0hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

8th most of 39 in Colorado 1.2× the national median

Worst outage on record May 6, 2024 87% of customers out · 90% back in 34 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 8.0h / yr State average 3.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.9days Aug 10, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 58% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 19 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 8,482 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Archuleta's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 19 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Archuleta, hours without power per customer

ArchuletaUS median countyColorado average
0 5 10 15 20 25 ’16 2.6 ’17 2.0 ’18 13 ’19 1.4 ’20 6.4 ’21 3.3 ’22 4.0 ’23 19 ’24 15 ’25 US 6.6 CO 3.0

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
May 6, 2024 No storm report 7,342 87% 31 h 34 h 127k
Feb 14, 2019 Winter storm 8,482 100% 19 h 16 h 92k
Feb 14, 2025 Winter storm 8,482 100% 10 h 9.2 h 69k
Apr 27, 2024 Winter storm 1,533 18% 10 h 5.5 h 15k
Jun 10, 2025 No storm report 4,038 48% 3.8 h 3.8 h 15k
Dec 24, 2021 Winter storm 1,345 16% 40 h 21 h 15k
Dec 10, 2021 Winter storm 1,827 22% 23 h 5.5 h 14k
Aug 10, 2025 Wildfire 1,304 15% 2.9 d 20 h 14k
May 4, 2025 Winter storm 3,671 43% 3.5 h 15 h 9.9k
Apr 3, 2023 No storm report 605 7% 21 h 17 h 7.7k
Dec 17, 2021 No storm report 1,477 17% 6.2 h 6.5 h 6.5k
Dec 23, 2016 Winter storm 1,470 17% 11 h 4.0 h 5.6k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +6h 90% by +6h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Archuleta from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Winter storm 48%
  • No storm on record 42%
  • Wildfire 9.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Archuleta

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Colorado territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Public Service Co of Colorado Investor Owned 360 149 1.58 15.9 1.4M
La Plata Electric Assn, Inc Cooperative 218 67 1.70 18.3 40k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Colorado

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Colorado counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 8,482 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →