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2022 El Paso County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in El Paso County, CO went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 302K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.6 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2749th 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 El Paso 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 20, 2022 18:15 | May 23, 2022 10:15 | 2d 16h | 10,383 | 25K |
| 2 | November 29, 2022 23:45 | November 30, 2022 02:45 | 3h | 8,044 | 2,031 |
| 3 | July 15, 2022 15:30 | July 17, 2022 00:45 | 1d 9h | 7,964 | 2,660 |
| 4 | September 7, 2022 14:30 | September 8, 2022 04:15 | 13h 45m | 7,782 | 11K |
| 5 | September 3, 2022 17:30 | September 3, 2022 21:15 | 3h 45m | 6,923 | 3,517 |
| 6 | July 27, 2022 12:30 | July 28, 2022 21:15 | 1d 8h | 6,650 | 3,693 |
| 7 | April 2, 2022 13:00 | April 3, 2022 02:15 | 13h 15m | 4,833 | 1,805 |
| 8 | June 5, 2022 18:00 | June 5, 2022 19:15 | 1h 15m | 4,759 | 3,950 |
| 9 | January 2, 2022 16:45 | January 3, 2022 06:00 | 13h 15m | 4,307 | 1,187 |
| 10 | September 14, 2022 08:15 | September 14, 2022 08:45 | 30m | 4,062 | 2,031 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 172 reached 100+ customers, 62 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 El Paso 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 |
| CORE Electric Cooperative | 2022 | 2.3 hrs | 1.06 | 1.7 hrs | 0.92 |
| Southeast Colorado Power Assn | 2022 | 16.4 hrs | - | 15.2 hrs | - |
| Mountain View Elec Assn, Inc | 2022 | 65 min | 0.78 | 47 min | 0.68 |
| Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC | 2022 | 3.8 hrs | 1.70 | 87 min | 1.31 |
| City of Colorado Springs - (CO) | 2022 | 42 min | 0.63 | 36 min | 0.56 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fountain | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 361,678 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. El Paso County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), El Paso 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/el-paso-county