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2020 Lincoln County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lincoln County, CO went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 10K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.2 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 57 Colorado counties and 1918th 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 Lincoln 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 | January 17, 2020 15:15 | January 20, 2020 17:15 | 3d 2h | 531 | 1,330 |
| 2 | January 17, 2020 13:45 | January 17, 2020 14:00 | 15m | 527 | 132 |
| 3 | March 15, 2020 17:00 | March 17, 2020 00:15 | 1d 7h | 507 | 2,243 |
| 4 | September 1, 2020 07:45 | September 1, 2020 12:30 | 4h 45m | 450 | 198 |
| 5 | April 23, 2020 19:30 | April 23, 2020 20:00 | 30m | 373 | 119 |
| 6 | March 5, 2020 23:45 | March 6, 2020 01:00 | 1h 15m | 357 | 446 |
| 7 | July 16, 2020 21:45 | July 16, 2020 22:45 | 1h | 353 | 231 |
| 8 | August 20, 2020 23:30 | August 21, 2020 02:30 | 3h | 299 | 295 |
| 9 | March 24, 2020 16:45 | March 24, 2020 18:00 | 1h 15m | 225 | 281 |
| 10 | March 18, 2020 03:45 | March 18, 2020 11:00 | 7h 15m | 142 | 975 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 14 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 Lincoln 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| K C Electric Association | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 3,630 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. Lincoln County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county