City of Loveland, CO
How often City of Loveland goes out
City of Loveland customers in Colorado rarely lose power at all: 0.3 interruptions last year, adding up to just 27 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 90% less outage time than the Colorado state average of 4.6 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
At an average of 78 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
What this means for buying a generator
Most City of Loveland customers keep power almost all year. Serving 42,408 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
The source behind this number
City of Loveland filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Colorado territory, serving 42,408 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Colorado average instead of just this one utility? Colorado's statewide record is here. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.