Power outage history
Garfield County Colorado
2.9hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
22nd most of 39 in Colorado 57% below the national median
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 Garfield's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.7 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Garfield, hours without power per customer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 15, 2017 | No storm report | 1,191 | 3% | 46 h | – | 54k |
| Aug 25, 2016 | No storm report | 3,415 | 10% | 9.0 h | 6.5 h | 27k |
| May 17, 2017 | Winter storm | 4,854 | 14% | 3.0 h | 6.2 h | 15k |
| Sep 12, 2024 | No storm report | 4,189 | 12% | 4.0 h | 3.2 h | 14k |
| Nov 15, 2021 | No storm report | 3,180 | 9% | 4.5 h | 12 min | 14k |
| Aug 6, 2025 | Wildfire | 3,396 | 10% | 4.0 h | 4.0 h | 14k |
| Apr 28, 2021 | No storm report | 2,164 | 6% | 6.2 h | 48 min | 13k |
| Jun 19, 2016 | No storm report | 1,519 | 4% | 10 h | – | 13k |
| Jun 21, 2025 | Windstorm | 3,832 | 11% | 4.2 h | 10 h | 12k |
| Oct 2, 2017 | Winter storm | 4,775 | 14% | 2.5 h | 1.2 h | 11k |
| Apr 16, 2018 | Windstorm | 4,863 | 14% | 2.2 h | 30 min | 11k |
| Sep 29, 2023 | No storm report | 6,116 | 18% | 1.8 h | 3.5 h | 11k |
| Sep 20, 2019 | Wildfire | 3,233 | 9% | 3.2 h | 1.5 h | 10k |
| Aug 3, 2024 | Wildfire | 3,001 | 9% | 5.5 h | 10 h | 9.7k |
| Oct 26, 2020 | Winter storm | 3,802 | 11% | 2.5 h | 48 min | 9.5k |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Windstorm | 3,453 | 10% | 5.2 h | 4.8 h | 9.2k |
| Jul 24, 2024 | No storm report | 1,854 | 5% | 9.5 h | 2.2 h | 9.0k |
| Nov 9, 2023 | No storm report | 6,120 | 18% | 1.5 h | 1.2 h | 8.6k |
| Oct 17, 2021 | No storm report | 2,625 | 8% | 3.2 h | 2.8 h | 8.5k |
| Jul 31, 2017 | No storm report | 3,706 | 11% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 8.3k |
| Feb 2, 2024 | Winter storm | 3,368 | 10% | 3.5 h | 3.2 h | 7.9k |
| Jun 23, 2025 | No storm report | 3,081 | 9% | 3.0 h | 2.2 h | 7.9k |
| Feb 12, 2018 | Winter storm | 772 | 2% | 18 h | – | 7.7k |
| Mar 18, 2018 | Winter storm | 1,770 | 5% | 4.2 h | 4.2 h | 7.5k |
| Jun 30, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,063 | 9% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 6.9k |
| Jan 6, 2019 | Winter storm | 1,939 | 6% | 3.8 h | 48 min | 6.8k |
| May 1, 2021 | No storm report | 1,157 | 3% | 7.5 h | – | 6.3k |
| Sep 16, 2020 | Wildfire | 3,380 | 10% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 5.9k |
| Jun 16, 2024 | No storm report | 1,541 | 4% | 3.8 h | – | 5.8k |
| Oct 23, 2015 | Winter storm | 2,552 | 7% | 2.2 h | 5.2 h | 5.7k |
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.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Garfield from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 46%
- Wildfire 25%
- Winter storm 17%
- Windstorm 9.4%
- Thunderstorms 1.7%
- Flooding 0.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Garfield
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 |
| Holy Cross Electric Assn, Inc | Cooperative | 71 | 71 | 1.07 | 12.4 | 50k |
| City of Glenwood Springs | CO | – | – | – | 12.4 | 40k |
| Grand Valley Power | Cooperative | 116 | 116 | – | 16.2 | 18k |
| White River Electric Assn, Inc | Cooperative | 216 | 105 | 1.57 | 14.7 | 2.6k |
| Moon Lake Electric Assn Inc | Cooperative | 81 | 81 | 0.94 | 9.7 | 1.5k |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | Federal | – | – | – | – | – |
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
- Grand, UT 8.8 h
- Uintah, UT 3.3 h
- Routt 3.2 h
- Garfield (this county) 2.9 h
- Pitkin 2.3 h
- Mesa 2.1 h
- Rio Blanco 1.6 h
- Eagle 1.1 h
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 34,904 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 →