Pitkin County, Colorado Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Pitkin County, Colorado had 3 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.95 times the US outage time per person and 2.86 times the Colorado rate. It ranks 6 of 44 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

21 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aughardest months

June and August made up 59% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 15, 2016, reached 3,598 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 21.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	125,758	37	2
2016	96,790	27	1
2017	2,369	3	0
2018	4,596	10	0
2019	13,397	18	0
2020	54,073	22	0
2021	21,768	15	0
2022	15,360	11	0
2023	14,432	16	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
Aug 15, 2016	21.0	3,598	70,245
Jun 23, 2015	15.8	3,708	57,038
Oct 26, 2020	3.0	12,971	38,594
May 5, 2015	18.8	2,811	23,149
Jun 22, 2015	5.0	3,706	11,583

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.