Power Out Map
– 0% of Hinsdale out 0 customers out in Colorado

Power outage history

Hinsdale County Colorado

The outage record here is too thin for a reliable yearly average. Raw events are listed below.

Worst outage on record Dec 26, 2021 6% of customers out · 90% back in 3.0 days
Hours without power, average customer per year –h / yr State average 3.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year – Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 5hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.4days Dec 25, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 72% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 773 ORNL customer model · 0 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 Hinsdale's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

Hinsdale, hours without power per customer

HinsdaleUS median countyColorado average
0 2 4 6 8 10 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 ’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
Dec 25, 2021 Winter storm 49 6% 3.4 d 3.0 d 3.9k
Jan 1, 2023 Winter storm 91 12% 13 h 6.2 h 665
Dec 24, 2021 Winter storm 48 6% 13 h 15 h 636
Feb 14, 2025 Winter storm 88 11% 6.8 h 6.8 h 594
Apr 10, 2021 No storm report 89 12% 5.0 h 5.0 h 445
Dec 12, 2023 No storm report 91 12% 4.8 h 4.8 h 432
Mar 11, 2023 Winter storm 46 6% 11 h 4.0 h 394
Jul 7, 2022 No storm report 111 14% 2.8 h 2.8 h 305
Jun 10, 2024 No storm report 107 14% 2.8 h 2.8 h 294
Jun 21, 2025 No storm report 114 15% 3.5 h 3.5 h 280
Nov 8, 2020 Winter storm 49 6% 5.2 h 5.2 h 257
May 22, 2021 No storm report 57 7% 4.5 h 4.5 h 255

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 +4h 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 Hinsdale from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Winter storm 72%
  • No storm on record 28%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Hinsdale

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
Gunnison County Elec Assn. CO 293 262 1.11 17.2 78k
La Plata Electric Assn, Inc Cooperative 218 67 1.70 18.3 40k
San Luis Valley R E C, Inc Cooperative 150 105 1.49 19.4 8.9k

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 773 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 →