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2018 Adams County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Adams County, CO went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 510K customer-hours (Colorado average 1.6 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 49 Colorado counties and 1829th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Adams County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 17, 2018 16:15 | April 22, 2018 05:15 | 4d 13h | 12,316 | 140K |
| 2 | July 8, 2018 17:45 | July 12, 2018 06:30 | 3d 12h | 10,284 | 30K |
| 3 | March 15, 2018 19:45 | March 17, 2018 05:00 | 1d 9h | 7,405 | 22K |
| 4 | August 17, 2018 23:45 | August 18, 2018 10:30 | 10h 45m | 7,387 | 13K |
| 5 | August 18, 2018 22:30 | August 20, 2018 01:00 | 1d 2h | 5,856 | 9,290 |
| 6 | May 5, 2018 14:45 | May 5, 2018 22:45 | 8h | 5,063 | 5,188 |
| 7 | October 18, 2018 10:45 | October 19, 2018 02:15 | 15h 30m | 4,210 | 4,208 |
| 8 | July 2, 2018 12:15 | July 4, 2018 13:30 | 2d 1h | 4,162 | 11K |
| 9 | March 12, 2018 18:00 | March 12, 2018 21:45 | 3h 45m | 4,099 | 3,087 |
| 10 | March 5, 2018 12:15 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 12h 45m | 3,908 | 5,183 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 164 reached 100+ customers, 45 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 | 1.6 hrs | 0.98 |
| CORE Electric Cooperative | 2018 | 89 min | 0.66 | 76 min | 0.59 |
| United Power, Inc | 2018 | 70 min | 0.75 | - | - |
| Morgan County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 88% of Colorado's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/colorado/adams-county