City of Fort Collins, CO
How often City of Fort Collins goes out
City of Fort Collins customers in Colorado rarely lose power at all: 0.1 interruptions last year, adding up to just 8 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 97% less outage time than the Colorado state average of 4.6 hours a year.
How long a single City of Fort Collins outage runs
A single outage here averages 62 minutes. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for City of Fort Collins
Serving 80,930 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Fort Collins customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Fort Collins files with federal regulators every year - serving 80,930 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Colorado as a whole, across every utility that filed: Colorado's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.