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2016 Adams County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Adams County, CO went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 579K customer-hours (Colorado average 1.7 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 40 Colorado counties and 1203rd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Adams County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 18, 2016 18:45 | March 28, 2016 18:30 | 9d 23h | 30,136 | 425K |
| 2 | June 21, 2016 14:30 | June 22, 2016 02:15 | 11h 45m | 10,063 | 5,381 |
| 3 | February 18, 2016 23:00 | February 19, 2016 14:30 | 15h 30m | 4,849 | 9,595 |
| 4 | March 31, 2016 19:30 | April 2, 2016 12:00 | 1d 16h | 4,386 | 7,839 |
| 5 | June 24, 2016 22:00 | June 25, 2016 21:45 | 23h 45m | 4,022 | 5,135 |
| 6 | June 29, 2016 14:30 | June 29, 2016 22:45 | 8h 15m | 3,764 | 3,094 |
| 7 | April 9, 2016 18:30 | April 12, 2016 14:00 | 2d 19h | 3,550 | 3,161 |
| 8 | June 8, 2016 15:00 | June 9, 2016 16:45 | 1d 1h | 3,547 | 1,427 |
| 9 | January 6, 2016 19:30 | January 7, 2016 11:00 | 15h 30m | 3,535 | 8,420 |
| 10 | January 25, 2016 23:45 | January 28, 2016 17:00 | 2d 17h | 3,036 | 838 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 92 reached 100+ customers, 22 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Adams County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 1.23 | 86 min | 0.97 |
| CORE Electric Cooperative | 2016 | 2.7 hrs | 0.91 | 77 min | 0.79 |
| Morgan County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Power, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 243,036 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. Adams County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Adams County, CO annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/colorado/adams-county