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2022 Lincoln County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Lincoln County, CO went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 5,673 customer-hours (Colorado average 2.6 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2477th 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 Lincoln 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 | June 12, 2022 03:45 | June 12, 2022 06:45 | 3h | 254 | 572 |
| 2 | May 17, 2022 16:00 | May 18, 2022 13:45 | 21h 45m | 249 | 1,569 |
| 3 | October 4, 2022 15:15 | October 4, 2022 17:30 | 2h 15m | 228 | 513 |
| 4 | October 17, 2022 19:45 | October 17, 2022 20:45 | 1h | 227 | 57 |
| 5 | July 31, 2022 00:00 | July 31, 2022 00:30 | 30m | 179 | 90 |
| 6 | June 18, 2022 20:15 | June 18, 2022 22:45 | 2h 30m | 174 | 189 |
| 7 | June 20, 2022 05:00 | June 20, 2022 05:30 | 30m | 174 | 87 |
| 8 | January 8, 2022 03:30 | January 8, 2022 05:15 | 1h 45m | 110 | 193 |
| 9 | October 23, 2022 22:00 | October 23, 2022 23:15 | 1h 15m | 93 | 116 |
| 10 | October 11, 2022 05:00 | October 11, 2022 06:45 | 1h 45m | 86 | 151 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 8 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 84% of Colorado's customers in 2022; 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, 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/lincoln-county