Archuleta County, Colorado Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

Archuleta County, Colorado had 6 major outages from 2016 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.84 times the US outage time per person and 2.52 times the Colorado rate. It ranks 7 of 44 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 8 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

4 of 8years with a major outage

18 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Dechardest months

February and December made up 65% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2019, reached 10,469 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 18.0 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2016	6,818	3	0
2017	14,564	11	0
2018	9,003	15	0
2019	109,787	11	1
2020	6,144	16	0
2021	42,259	17	3
2022	19,925	23	1
2023	23,230	11	1

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Feb 15, 2019	18.0	10,469	96,932
Dec 10, 2021	10.5	1,827	11,787
Dec 24, 2021	18.0	1,345	10,118
Apr 4, 2023	16.5	605	6,980
Dec 17, 2021	4.2	1,477	6,277

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.