Conejos County, Colorado Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Conejos County, Colorado had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.75 times the US outage time per person and 8.27 times the Colorado rate. It ranks 1 of 44 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

54 hrslongest major outage

May, Dechardest months

May and December made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 31, 2021, reached 4,247 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 14.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Colorado counties

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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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	2,216	10	0
2016	42,032	15	0
2017	24,982	7	0
2018	30,663	8	0
2019	46,856	14	0
2020	66,856	12	2
2021	96,769	18	2
2022	85,886	20	5
2023	61,232	15	0

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
May 31, 2021	14.2	4,247	37,320
Sep 9, 2020	54.0	5,075	31,940
Apr 17, 2018	5.2	4,028	21,135
May 28, 2022	30.5	815	19,440
May 25, 2023	5.8	4,405	18,280

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.