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2019 El Paso County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in El Paso County, CO went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 178K customer-hours (Colorado average 3.3 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 55 Colorado counties and 2681st of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in El Paso County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 13, 2019 16:00 | March 17, 2019 07:30 | 3d 15h | 7,312 | 122K |
| 2 | December 3, 2019 00:00 | December 3, 2019 01:15 | 1h 15m | 7,113 | 1,780 |
| 3 | July 20, 2019 22:00 | July 21, 2019 08:00 | 10h | 3,531 | 7,357 |
| 4 | December 16, 2019 15:00 | December 17, 2019 01:30 | 10h 30m | 2,766 | 2,414 |
| 5 | May 21, 2019 13:30 | May 21, 2019 19:30 | 6h | 1,815 | 1,617 |
| 6 | July 22, 2019 02:45 | July 22, 2019 07:00 | 4h 15m | 1,186 | 3,759 |
| 7 | March 4, 2019 23:00 | March 6, 2019 13:30 | 1d 14h | 861 | 800 |
| 8 | November 21, 2019 13:00 | November 21, 2019 18:00 | 5h | 780 | 1,188 |
| 9 | March 29, 2019 13:30 | March 29, 2019 14:45 | 1h 15m | 778 | 197 |
| 10 | November 27, 2019 13:15 | November 28, 2019 04:30 | 15h 15m | 739 | 738 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 63 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 2019, 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 83% of Colorado's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/colorado/el-paso-county