Power outage history
Saguache County Colorado
3.3hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
50% 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 Saguache's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.7 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Saguache, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 2022 | No storm report | 875 | 27% | 6.2 h | 6.2 h | 4.9k |
| Apr 25, 2025 | No storm report | 732 | 22% | 6.2 h | 6.0 h | 3.8k |
| Mar 12, 2019 | Winter storm | 833 | 26% | 16 h | 2.2 h | 3.3k |
| May 10, 2024 | Winter storm | 349 | 11% | 15 h | 11 h | 3.2k |
| Jan 15, 2025 | No storm report | 586 | 18% | 5.2 h | 14 h | 2.9k |
| Aug 26, 2025 | No storm report | 592 | 18% | 6.8 h | 3.0 h | 2.7k |
| Mar 31, 2024 | No storm report | 679 | 21% | 5.5 h | 5.5 h | 2.2k |
| Jun 8, 2025 | No storm report | 729 | 22% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 2.0k |
| Feb 22, 2021 | No storm report | 645 | 20% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 2.0k |
| Jun 7, 2025 | No storm report | 564 | 17% | 3.8 h | 3.2 h | 1.9k |
| Jun 3, 2024 | No storm report | 682 | 21% | 4.5 h | 48 min | 1.8k |
| Dec 16, 2023 | No storm report | 332 | 10% | 4.2 h | 5.5 h | 1.4k |
| Sep 19, 2022 | No storm report | 148 | 5% | 5.2 h | – | 777 |
| Mar 19, 2024 | No storm report | 169 | 5% | 4.5 h | 4.2 h | 716 |
| Apr 18, 2024 | No storm report | 122 | 4% | 5.8 h | – | 696 |
| Feb 19, 2018 | Windstorm | 153 | 5% | 4.5 h | – | 688 |
| Nov 11, 2015 | No storm report | 496 | 15% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 620 |
| Jun 2, 2024 | No storm report | 163 | 5% | 3.8 h | 3.8 h | 611 |
| May 11, 2023 | No storm report | 150 | 5% | 7.5 h | – | 581 |
| Feb 22, 2018 | No storm report | 94 | 3% | 5.2 h | – | 494 |
| Aug 17, 2024 | No storm report | 48 | 1% | 10 h | – | 489 |
| Aug 7, 2022 | No storm report | 41 | 1% | 12 h | – | 472 |
| May 28, 2024 | No storm report | 97 | 3% | 5.0 h | – | 436 |
| Sep 15, 2025 | No storm report | 73 | 2% | 5.8 h | – | 420 |
| Dec 29, 2019 | No storm report | 151 | 5% | 2.8 h | – | 415 |
| Oct 19, 2024 | No storm report | 121 | 4% | 3.2 h | – | 393 |
| Jul 13, 2017 | No storm report | 151 | 5% | 3.5 h | – | 387 |
| May 23, 2022 | No storm report | 56 | 2% | 10 h | – | 365 |
| Aug 29, 2022 | No storm report | 147 | 5% | 2.5 h | – | 358 |
| Apr 15, 2021 | No storm report | 89 | 3% | 4.0 h | – | 354 |
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 Saguache from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 83%
- Winter storm 15%
- Windstorm 1.5%
- Flooding 0.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Saguache
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 |
| Sangre De Cristo Elec Assn Inc | CO | 198 | 198 | 1.61 | 17.5 | 84k |
| Gunnison County Elec Assn. | CO | 293 | 262 | 1.11 | 17.2 | 78k |
| City of Center | CO | – | – | – | – | 10.0k |
| San Luis Valley R E C, Inc | Cooperative | 150 | 105 | 1.49 | 19.4 | 8.9k |
| 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
- Rio Grande 3.4 h
- Saguache (this county) 3.3 h
- Chaffee 3.2 h
- Alamosa 2.8 h
- Fremont 1.9 h
- Gunnison 0.6 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 3,260 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 →