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2021 Elbert County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Elbert County, CO went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.8 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2102nd 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 Elbert 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 | June 22, 2021 15:00 | June 22, 2021 15:45 | 45m | 5,444 | 2,711 |
| 2 | June 2, 2021 12:15 | June 2, 2021 13:00 | 45m | 1,224 | 811 |
| 3 | August 26, 2021 21:00 | August 27, 2021 09:00 | 12h | 1,055 | 2,340 |
| 4 | March 22, 2021 07:30 | March 22, 2021 11:00 | 3h 30m | 1,038 | 2,388 |
| 5 | June 23, 2021 14:00 | June 23, 2021 20:45 | 6h 45m | 1,009 | 332 |
| 6 | June 21, 2021 18:00 | June 21, 2021 21:45 | 3h 45m | 1,005 | 1,373 |
| 7 | January 27, 2021 09:00 | January 27, 2021 11:30 | 2h 30m | 754 | 1,349 |
| 8 | February 14, 2021 04:15 | February 14, 2021 14:30 | 10h 15m | 437 | 3,190 |
| 9 | April 19, 2021 23:30 | April 19, 2021 23:45 | 15m | 340 | 85 |
| 10 | June 16, 2021 16:00 | June 16, 2021 20:15 | 4h 15m | 337 | 89 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 24 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 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 |
| CORE Electric Cooperative | 2021 | 2.7 hrs | 0.91 | 46 min | 0.54 |
| Mountain View Elec Assn, Inc | 2021 | 50 min | 0.56 | 50 min | 0.56 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/elbert-county