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2020 Adams County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Adams County, CO went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 494K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.2 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 57 Colorado counties and 2242nd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Adams County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 20, 2020 15:45 | October 20, 2020 22:45 | 7h | 25,035 | 6,692 |
| 2 | June 3, 2020 17:00 | June 10, 2020 07:15 | 6d 14h | 18,345 | 135K |
| 3 | February 23, 2020 15:30 | February 24, 2020 11:30 | 20h | 8,584 | 15K |
| 4 | February 20, 2020 16:00 | February 21, 2020 14:00 | 22h | 6,467 | 6,345 |
| 5 | May 19, 2020 14:30 | May 22, 2020 00:00 | 2d 9h | 5,449 | 8,476 |
| 6 | June 17, 2020 19:45 | September 2, 2020 23:15 | 77d 3h | 4,164 | 151K |
| 7 | October 19, 2020 19:15 | October 20, 2020 08:30 | 13h 15m | 3,964 | 4,900 |
| 8 | December 23, 2020 02:45 | December 23, 2020 09:15 | 6h 30m | 3,742 | 5,324 |
| 9 | March 10, 2020 14:15 | March 11, 2020 02:30 | 12h 15m | 3,647 | 2,367 |
| 10 | June 1, 2020 14:45 | June 3, 2020 08:15 | 1d 17h | 3,333 | 6,927 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 94 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 2.3 hrs | 1.03 | 83 min | 0.85 |
| CORE Electric Cooperative | 2020 | 2.0 hrs | 0.77 | 89 min | 0.68 |
| United Power, Inc | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 0.91 | 71 min | - |
| 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 84% of Colorado's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/colorado/adams-county