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2015 El Paso County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in El Paso County, CO went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 120K customer-hours (Colorado average 1.2 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 33 Colorado counties and 2168th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in El Paso County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 27, 2015 01:15 | July 27, 2015 09:45 | 8h 30m | 8,272 | 2,131 |
| 2 | December 7, 2015 03:15 | December 7, 2015 08:00 | 4h 45m | 6,273 | 1,985 |
| 3 | May 28, 2015 22:15 | May 29, 2015 04:15 | 6h | 5,641 | 5,664 |
| 4 | November 1, 2015 14:15 | November 2, 2015 01:15 | 11h | 4,096 | 1,047 |
| 5 | June 3, 2015 10:30 | June 3, 2015 12:00 | 1h 30m | 4,072 | 5,087 |
| 6 | October 4, 2015 19:45 | October 4, 2015 20:00 | 15m | 3,516 | 879 |
| 7 | June 28, 2015 23:00 | June 29, 2015 09:15 | 10h 15m | 3,307 | 4,549 |
| 8 | July 24, 2015 18:00 | July 25, 2015 00:00 | 6h | 3,153 | 814 |
| 9 | June 6, 2015 03:15 | June 6, 2015 09:15 | 6h | 3,135 | 6,591 |
| 10 | July 26, 2015 02:00 | July 26, 2015 11:00 | 9h | 3,085 | 4,485 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 128 reached 100+ customers, 31 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving El Paso County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Co of Colorado | 2015 | 1.6 hrs | 0.98 | 88 min | 0.95 |
| CORE Electric Cooperative | 2015 | 4.5 hrs | 1.16 | 1.9 hrs | 1.04 |
| Mountain View Elec Assn, Inc | 2015 | 1.9 hrs | 0.85 | 57 min | 0.60 |
| Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC | 2015 | 1.9 hrs | 1.95 | 82 min | 1.26 |
| City of Colorado Springs - (CO) | 2015 | 38 min | 0.56 | 38 min | 0.56 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southeast Colorado Power Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fountain | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Colorado's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 361,678 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. El Paso County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), El Paso County, CO annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/colorado/el-paso-county