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2020 El Paso County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in El Paso County, CO went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 343K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.2 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 57 Colorado counties and 2679th 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 El Paso 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 | July 13, 2020 07:30 | July 13, 2020 10:15 | 2h 45m | 23,613 | 52K |
| 2 | June 21, 2020 17:00 | June 22, 2020 02:45 | 9h 45m | 10,022 | 5,401 |
| 3 | October 9, 2020 05:45 | October 13, 2020 22:30 | 4d 16h | 8,950 | 3,534 |
| 4 | December 25, 2020 23:45 | December 26, 2020 00:45 | 1h | 8,795 | 6,743 |
| 5 | March 15, 2020 14:30 | March 15, 2020 22:15 | 7h 45m | 7,273 | 10K |
| 6 | June 3, 2020 11:00 | June 3, 2020 17:45 | 6h 45m | 7,194 | 5,468 |
| 7 | April 26, 2020 13:45 | April 26, 2020 17:15 | 3h 30m | 6,220 | 5,484 |
| 8 | November 28, 2020 02:45 | November 28, 2020 09:45 | 7h | 6,220 | 11K |
| 9 | June 4, 2020 22:15 | June 5, 2020 08:15 | 10h | 5,946 | 6,495 |
| 10 | June 6, 2020 12:00 | June 8, 2020 17:00 | 2d 5h | 5,613 | 20K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 176 reached 100+ customers, 60 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 El Paso 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 |
| Southeast Colorado Power Assn | 2020 | 5.7 hrs | - | 5.0 hrs | - |
| Mountain View Elec Assn, Inc | 2020 | 4.4 hrs | 0.76 | 3.9 hrs | 0.60 |
| Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC | 2020 | 74 min | 1.87 | 65 min | 1.72 |
| City of Colorado Springs - (CO) | 2020 | 54 min | 0.93 | 54 min | 0.93 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 84% of Colorado's customers in 2020; 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, 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/el-paso-county