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2017 Lincoln County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lincoln County, CO went without power for an average of 10.1 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (Colorado average 1.5 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 48 Colorado counties and 534th 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 Lincoln 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 | December 8, 2017 03:00 | December 8, 2017 05:00 | 2h | 1,920 | 3,371 |
| 2 | December 4, 2017 16:00 | December 4, 2017 17:45 | 1h 45m | 809 | 204 |
| 3 | May 29, 2017 02:00 | June 2, 2017 07:45 | 4d 5h | 803 | 4,385 |
| 4 | October 27, 2017 12:00 | October 27, 2017 13:30 | 1h 30m | 587 | 881 |
| 5 | March 24, 2017 10:30 | March 31, 2017 19:15 | 7d 8h | 579 | 23K |
| 6 | September 26, 2017 14:15 | September 26, 2017 14:30 | 15m | 359 | 90 |
| 7 | August 15, 2017 03:45 | August 15, 2017 06:30 | 2h 45m | 252 | 466 |
| 8 | October 6, 2017 17:45 | October 7, 2017 17:15 | 23h 30m | 223 | 357 |
| 9 | March 16, 2017 00:15 | March 16, 2017 03:30 | 3h 15m | 209 | 516 |
| 10 | September 19, 2017 15:15 | September 19, 2017 19:30 | 4h 15m | 177 | 617 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 12 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Lincoln 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain View Elec Assn, Inc | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | 1.25 | 59 min | 0.54 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southeast Colorado Power Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| K C Electric Association | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 3,630 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. Lincoln County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county