Power Out Map
– 0% of Gunnison out 0 customers out in Colorado

Power outage history

Gunnison County Colorado

0.6hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

39th most of 39 in Colorado 91% below the national median

Worst outage on record May 9, 2022 3% of customers out · lasted 11 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 0.6h / yr State average 3.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% – Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 11hours May 8, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 68% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 51 min without power, average customer
Electricity customers 14,729 ORNL customer model · 7 well-covered years

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 Gunnison's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 51 min for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Gunnison, hours without power per customer

GunnisonUS median countyColorado average
0 2 4 6 8 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 0.4 ’19 0.7 ’20 0.4 ’21 0.8 ’22 0.5 ’23 0.5 ’24 0.7 ’25 US 6.6 CO 3.0

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
May 8, 2022 Windstorm 407 3% 11 h – 3.4k
Nov 7, 2020 Winter storm 340 2% 5.8 h – 1.8k
Aug 22, 2025 Wildfire 345 2% 4.2 h – 1.4k
Apr 11, 2022 Winter storm 332 2% 3.8 h – 1.2k
Nov 27, 2023 Wildfire 339 2% 4.0 h – 1.2k
Aug 10, 2023 Wildfire 352 2% 3.5 h – 1.1k
Jun 13, 2016 No storm report 323 2% 3.2 h – 1.1k
Aug 4, 2023 Wildfire 285 2% 3.0 h – 855
Oct 26, 2020 Winter storm 327 2% 2.5 h – 818
Apr 14, 2021 No storm report 326 2% 2.5 h – 815
Nov 16, 2025 Winter storm 224 2% 3.5 h – 784
May 19, 2022 No storm report 331 2% 2.2 h – 745

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Gunnison from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 32%
  • Winter storm 29%
  • Wildfire 24%
  • Windstorm 15%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Gunnison

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
Gunnison County Elec Assn. CO 293 262 1.11 17.2 78k
Holy Cross Electric Assn, Inc Cooperative 71 71 1.07 12.4 50k
Delta Montrose Electric Assn Cooperative 116 116 0.96 14.9 33k
City of Gunnison CO – – – 10.0 28k
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

Across Colorado

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Colorado counties →

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 14,729 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 →