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2020 Kit Carson County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Kit Carson County, CO went without power for an average of 7.7 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.2 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 57 Colorado counties and 996th 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 Kit Carson 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 23, 2020 22:45 | November 3, 2020 07:30 | 40d 8h | 2,215 | 5,170 |
| 2 | November 3, 2020 11:15 | December 8, 2020 07:30 | 34d 20h | 2,037 | 5,232 |
| 3 | January 17, 2020 15:15 | March 5, 2020 20:45 | 48d 5h | 1,116 | 4,207 |
| 4 | January 1, 2020 00:00 | January 17, 2020 14:00 | 16d 14h | 1,115 | 2,035 |
| 5 | April 10, 2020 23:00 | April 13, 2020 18:00 | 2d 19h | 456 | 1,590 |
| 6 | March 9, 2020 09:15 | March 26, 2020 14:45 | 17d 5h | 370 | 3,776 |
| 7 | May 16, 2020 06:00 | May 27, 2020 23:30 | 11d 17h | 357 | 1,165 |
| 8 | May 12, 2020 05:00 | May 12, 2020 06:00 | 1h | 338 | 338 |
| 9 | September 8, 2020 01:30 | September 10, 2020 14:45 | 2d 13h | 227 | 231 |
| 10 | September 14, 2020 12:15 | September 14, 2020 13:00 | 45m | 226 | 170 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 12 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Kit Carson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K C Electric Association | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Burlington - (CO) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 3,818 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. Kit Carson County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kit Carson 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/colorado/kit-carson-county