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2016 El Paso County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in El Paso County, CO went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 320K customer-hours (Colorado average 1.7 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 40 Colorado counties and 1846th 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 El Paso 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 | August 20, 2016 00:45 | August 20, 2016 05:45 | 5h | 15,721 | 11K |
| 2 | March 23, 2016 13:45 | March 24, 2016 03:00 | 13h 15m | 6,957 | 6,102 |
| 3 | December 12, 2016 19:15 | December 12, 2016 21:45 | 2h 30m | 6,876 | 1,920 |
| 4 | April 25, 2016 03:15 | April 25, 2016 04:45 | 1h 30m | 4,559 | 1,141 |
| 5 | August 8, 2016 17:15 | August 9, 2016 00:30 | 7h 15m | 4,011 | 4,690 |
| 6 | July 11, 2016 02:15 | August 2, 2016 16:15 | 22d 14h | 3,869 | 41K |
| 7 | August 12, 2016 21:15 | August 13, 2016 13:15 | 16h | 3,836 | 3,637 |
| 8 | December 30, 2016 17:30 | December 31, 2016 00:00 | 6h 30m | 3,777 | 1,899 |
| 9 | December 25, 2016 17:15 | December 26, 2016 06:00 | 12h 45m | 3,717 | 2,147 |
| 10 | August 25, 2016 14:30 | August 30, 2016 12:15 | 4d 21h | 3,625 | 4,014 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 146 reached 100+ customers, 42 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| Mountain View Elec Assn, Inc | 2016 | 1.9 hrs | 0.99 | 67 min | 0.80 |
| Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC | 2016 | 77 min | 1.11 | 77 min | 1.11 |
| City of Colorado Springs - (CO) | 2016 | 44 min | 0.68 | 44 min | 0.68 |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/el-paso-county