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2018 El Paso County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in El Paso County, CO went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 89K customer-hours (Colorado average 1.6 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 49 Colorado counties and 2606th 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 El Paso 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 | November 25, 2018 04:45 | November 25, 2018 08:30 | 3h 45m | 4,333 | 4,759 |
| 2 | May 3, 2018 13:45 | May 4, 2018 19:30 | 1d 5h | 3,972 | 5,298 |
| 3 | January 5, 2018 05:00 | January 5, 2018 07:00 | 2h | 3,924 | 4,031 |
| 4 | April 26, 2018 13:15 | April 26, 2018 19:30 | 6h 15m | 3,456 | 2,934 |
| 5 | April 18, 2018 11:45 | April 19, 2018 02:30 | 14h 45m | 3,311 | 2,742 |
| 6 | May 20, 2018 16:00 | May 20, 2018 18:30 | 2h 30m | 3,052 | 1,564 |
| 7 | April 5, 2018 03:15 | April 5, 2018 04:00 | 45m | 3,003 | 2,074 |
| 8 | February 20, 2018 11:45 | February 20, 2018 13:00 | 1h 15m | 2,981 | 3,117 |
| 9 | September 12, 2018 20:30 | September 12, 2018 23:30 | 3h | 2,170 | 1,459 |
| 10 | March 31, 2018 12:15 | March 31, 2018 18:30 | 6h 15m | 1,719 | 2,121 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 76 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 El Paso 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 |
| Mountain View Elec Assn, Inc | 2018 | 50 min | 0.58 | 50 min | 0.58 |
| Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC | 2018 | 73 min | 1.02 | 56 min | 0.87 |
| City of Colorado Springs - (CO) | 2018 | 43 min | 0.71 | 43 min | 0.71 |
| 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 88% of Colorado's customers in 2018; 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, 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/el-paso-county