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2020 Gilpin County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Gilpin County, CO went without power for an average of 10.7 hours, a total of 28K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.2 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 57 Colorado counties and 744th 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 Gilpin 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 | June 12, 2020 17:45 | June 12, 2020 21:45 | 4h | 832 | 257 |
| 2 | September 1, 2020 04:00 | September 1, 2020 12:00 | 8h | 819 | 6,162 |
| 3 | September 1, 2020 12:45 | September 2, 2020 23:15 | 1d 10h | 819 | 1,982 |
| 4 | May 25, 2020 20:00 | May 25, 2020 20:30 | 30m | 773 | 387 |
| 5 | October 27, 2020 17:45 | October 27, 2020 19:45 | 2h | 533 | 944 |
| 6 | July 30, 2020 22:45 | July 31, 2020 00:45 | 2h | 327 | 654 |
| 7 | September 12, 2020 04:30 | September 12, 2020 14:45 | 10h 15m | 327 | 3,270 |
| 8 | September 13, 2020 04:15 | September 13, 2020 15:45 | 11h 30m | 327 | 3,761 |
| 9 | November 9, 2020 14:45 | November 10, 2020 05:15 | 14h 30m | 327 | 4,742 |
| 10 | January 2, 2020 16:30 | January 2, 2020 21:00 | 4h 30m | 274 | 378 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 15 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Gilpin 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 | - |
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 ÷ 2,626 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. Gilpin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gilpin 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/gilpin-county