Mesa County, Colorado Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Mesa County, Colorado had 4 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.19 times the US outage time per person and 0.57 times the Colorado rate. It ranks 37 of 44 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

34 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Mayhardest months

October and May made up 32% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 25, 2020, reached 10,775 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 34.5 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	19,656	29	0
2016	30,226	25	0
2017	13,460	19	0
2018	60,667	37	0
2019	45,967	23	0
2020	198,992	46	2
2021	83,504	33	0
2022	109,551	68	1
2023	109,230	70	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
Oct 25, 2020	34.5	10,775	96,580
May 24, 2021	2.2	23,030	40,392
Jul 27, 2020	9.2	2,522	23,140
Aug 19, 2023	11.0	9,326	22,219
Nov 9, 2022	3.5	4,680	16,193

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.