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2022 Denver County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Denver County, CO went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (Colorado average 2.6 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 1999th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Denver County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 17, 2022 07:45 | May 25, 2022 05:45 | 7d 22h | 32,049 | 455K |
| 2 | October 6, 2022 15:00 | October 8, 2022 03:45 | 1d 12h | 14,822 | 27K |
| 3 | November 5, 2022 14:15 | November 6, 2022 01:00 | 10h 45m | 11,947 | 9,891 |
| 4 | August 4, 2022 12:15 | August 17, 2022 08:45 | 12d 20h | 11,485 | 52K |
| 5 | June 27, 2022 17:15 | June 28, 2022 02:15 | 9h | 9,532 | 12K |
| 6 | December 6, 2022 14:30 | December 7, 2022 08:00 | 17h 30m | 8,858 | 15K |
| 7 | December 28, 2022 14:45 | December 31, 2022 04:15 | 2d 13h | 8,568 | 48K |
| 8 | September 4, 2022 12:45 | September 4, 2022 16:30 | 3h 45m | 7,630 | 5,938 |
| 9 | April 29, 2022 14:30 | April 30, 2022 23:00 | 1d 8h | 7,591 | 26K |
| 10 | November 7, 2022 13:00 | November 8, 2022 05:15 | 16h 15m | 7,002 | 8,005 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 220 reached 100+ customers, 62 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Denver County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 2.9 hrs | 1.17 | 1.9 hrs | 1.04 |
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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 398,898 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. Denver County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Denver County, CO annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/colorado/denver-county