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2021 Lincoln County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lincoln County, CO went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 8,408 customer-hours (Colorado average 2.8 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2107th 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 Lincoln 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 15, 2021 16:45 | June 16, 2021 14:15 | 21h 30m | 2,187 | 1,728 |
| 2 | July 21, 2021 17:15 | July 21, 2021 17:45 | 30m | 685 | 172 |
| 3 | October 27, 2021 03:00 | October 27, 2021 14:30 | 11h 30m | 533 | 3,345 |
| 4 | January 31, 2021 04:00 | January 31, 2021 05:45 | 1h 45m | 181 | 317 |
| 5 | April 7, 2021 04:00 | April 7, 2021 13:45 | 9h 45m | 180 | 162 |
| 6 | July 24, 2021 20:30 | July 25, 2021 01:45 | 5h 15m | 132 | 370 |
| 7 | February 12, 2021 16:30 | February 12, 2021 19:45 | 3h 15m | 108 | 200 |
| 8 | October 13, 2021 09:30 | October 13, 2021 19:15 | 9h 45m | 76 | 232 |
| 9 | November 2, 2021 06:15 | November 2, 2021 10:00 | 3h 45m | 52 | 147 |
| 10 | December 19, 2021 16:45 | December 19, 2021 17:00 | 15m | 52 | 13 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 7 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southeast Colorado Power Assn | 2021 | 12.0 hrs | - | 9.4 hrs | - |
| Mountain View Elec Assn, Inc | 2021 | 50 min | 0.56 | 50 min | 0.56 |
| 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 83% of Colorado's customers in 2021; 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, 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/lincoln-county