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2017 El Paso County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in El Paso County, CO went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 585K customer-hours (Colorado average 1.5 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 48 Colorado counties and 1780th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in El Paso County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 9, 2017 11:00 | January 13, 2017 07:15 | 3d 20h | 20,251 | 257K |
| 2 | March 24, 2017 04:15 | March 26, 2017 04:45 | 2d | 13,537 | 77K |
| 3 | July 1, 2017 01:30 | July 1, 2017 08:00 | 6h 30m | 9,713 | 4,077 |
| 4 | July 19, 2017 15:30 | July 20, 2017 05:45 | 14h 15m | 9,568 | 15K |
| 5 | June 16, 2017 22:45 | June 17, 2017 14:15 | 15h 30m | 6,541 | 3,572 |
| 6 | June 2, 2017 00:45 | June 2, 2017 07:00 | 6h 15m | 6,472 | 7,883 |
| 7 | May 20, 2017 18:15 | May 21, 2017 00:30 | 6h 15m | 6,431 | 8,781 |
| 8 | August 3, 2017 08:45 | August 5, 2017 00:45 | 1d 16h | 6,389 | 10K |
| 9 | April 27, 2017 18:15 | April 27, 2017 23:30 | 5h 15m | 4,421 | 2,251 |
| 10 | April 25, 2017 21:00 | April 26, 2017 11:45 | 14h 45m | 4,399 | 4,166 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 175 reached 100+ customers, 55 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 El Paso County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 1.8 hrs | 1.01 | 84 min | 0.92 |
| CORE Electric Cooperative | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.84 | 70 min | 0.73 |
| Mountain View Elec Assn, Inc | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | 1.25 | 59 min | 0.54 |
| Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC | 2017 | 6.9 hrs | 4.78 | 1.6 hrs | 1.41 |
| City of Colorado Springs - (CO) | 2017 | 2.2 hrs | 0.91 | 48 min | 0.66 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/colorado/el-paso-county