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2021 Broomfield County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Broomfield County, CO went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 51K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.8 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2502nd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Broomfield County, 2021
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 14, 2021 18:30 | July 14, 2021 19:45 | 1h 15m | 2,775 | 3,268 |
| 2 | September 1, 2021 22:00 | September 1, 2021 23:30 | 1h 30m | 2,766 | 694 |
| 3 | July 16, 2021 19:30 | July 16, 2021 21:15 | 1h 45m | 2,763 | 1,174 |
| 4 | April 2, 2021 09:30 | April 2, 2021 12:00 | 2h 30m | 2,752 | 4,816 |
| 5 | March 5, 2021 01:15 | March 5, 2021 15:45 | 14h 30m | 2,541 | 6,471 |
| 6 | October 6, 2021 20:15 | October 6, 2021 21:00 | 45m | 2,408 | 602 |
| 7 | March 14, 2021 11:15 | March 15, 2021 09:45 | 22h 30m | 2,147 | 4,550 |
| 8 | March 22, 2021 13:15 | March 22, 2021 15:45 | 2h 30m | 1,821 | 4,429 |
| 9 | June 8, 2021 13:00 | June 8, 2021 14:30 | 1h 30m | 1,812 | 1,812 |
| 10 | August 9, 2021 21:00 | August 19, 2021 18:15 | 9d 21h | 1,677 | 4,388 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 26 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Broomfield County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 3.0 hrs | 1.20 | 2.2 hrs | 1.00 |
| United Power, Inc | 2021 | 85 min | 0.80 | 68 min | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 83% of Colorado's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 36,182 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. Broomfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Broomfield County, CO annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/colorado/broomfield-county