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2020 Elbert County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Elbert County, CO went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.2 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 57 Colorado counties and 1866th 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 Elbert 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 25, 2020 18:15 | October 26, 2020 01:45 | 7h 30m | 1,963 | 3,118 |
| 2 | November 7, 2020 16:45 | November 7, 2020 18:30 | 1h 45m | 1,663 | 682 |
| 3 | October 24, 2020 09:15 | October 24, 2020 11:00 | 1h 45m | 670 | 955 |
| 4 | January 27, 2020 23:15 | January 28, 2020 08:30 | 9h 15m | 569 | 845 |
| 5 | December 23, 2020 06:30 | December 23, 2020 12:00 | 5h 30m | 433 | 1,575 |
| 6 | June 21, 2020 21:30 | June 22, 2020 00:15 | 2h 45m | 421 | 1,148 |
| 7 | June 6, 2020 16:30 | June 8, 2020 03:45 | 1d 11h | 419 | 4,425 |
| 8 | March 19, 2020 19:00 | March 20, 2020 23:30 | 1d 4h | 417 | 2,888 |
| 9 | October 2, 2020 17:00 | October 2, 2020 23:00 | 6h | 416 | 550 |
| 10 | July 7, 2020 15:30 | July 7, 2020 22:15 | 6h 45m | 407 | 341 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 30 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Elbert 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 |
| Mountain View Elec Assn, Inc | 2020 | 4.4 hrs | 0.76 | 3.9 hrs | 0.60 |
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 ÷ 10,107 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. Elbert County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elbert 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/elbert-county