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2020 Broomfield County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Broomfield County, CO went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.2 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 57 Colorado counties and 2705th 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 Broomfield 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 | September 3, 2020 14:15 | September 3, 2020 16:00 | 1h 45m | 3,503 | 5,224 |
| 2 | August 22, 2020 19:15 | August 22, 2020 23:30 | 4h 15m | 2,339 | 3,769 |
| 3 | July 22, 2020 22:45 | July 23, 2020 01:30 | 2h 45m | 2,189 | 3,278 |
| 4 | December 29, 2020 00:45 | December 29, 2020 04:45 | 4h | 1,968 | 2,773 |
| 5 | July 21, 2020 17:30 | July 21, 2020 21:30 | 4h | 1,824 | 1,374 |
| 6 | October 5, 2020 16:30 | October 5, 2020 21:00 | 4h 30m | 1,816 | 3,645 |
| 7 | April 7, 2020 14:00 | April 8, 2020 01:15 | 11h 15m | 981 | 2,214 |
| 8 | April 8, 2020 19:00 | April 8, 2020 22:00 | 3h | 977 | 1,142 |
| 9 | May 28, 2020 13:00 | May 28, 2020 15:15 | 2h 15m | 639 | 855 |
| 10 | June 1, 2020 18:45 | June 1, 2020 20:45 | 2h | 555 | 622 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 18 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 Broomfield 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 |
| United Power, Inc | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 0.91 | 71 min | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 36,182 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. Broomfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Broomfield 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/broomfield-county