Delta County, Colorado Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

Delta County, Colorado had 1 major outage from 2019 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.27 times the US outage time per person and 0.80 times the Colorado rate. It ranks 28 of 44 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 5 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

1 of 5years with a major outage

20 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Mayhardest months

April and May made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 28, 2023, reached 5,283 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 4.2 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
2019	272	1	0
2020	20,927	16	0
2021	20,245	10	0
2022	22,296	13	1
2023	41,448	22	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
Apr 28, 2023	4.2	5,283	16,517
Apr 22, 2022	4.0	4,408	10,590
Sep 30, 2021	2.8	3,840	9,853
May 14, 2023	2.8	3,083	8,476
May 22, 2021	2.8	3,470	5,557

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.