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2023 El Paso County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in El Paso County, CO went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 384K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.1 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2659th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in El Paso County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 15, 2023 12:15 | April 15, 2023 22:00 | 9h 45m | 11,086 | 2,802 |
| 2 | July 28, 2023 22:00 | July 29, 2023 05:15 | 7h 15m | 10,708 | 4,264 |
| 3 | September 12, 2023 15:30 | September 13, 2023 22:00 | 1d 6h | 9,452 | 4,786 |
| 4 | May 11, 2023 09:30 | May 14, 2023 06:00 | 2d 20h | 9,295 | 25K |
| 5 | November 29, 2023 10:45 | November 29, 2023 12:45 | 2h | 8,985 | 14K |
| 6 | April 19, 2023 10:30 | April 19, 2023 23:45 | 13h 15m | 8,657 | 4,744 |
| 7 | April 18, 2023 12:15 | April 19, 2023 01:15 | 13h | 8,634 | 2,374 |
| 8 | April 13, 2023 09:30 | April 13, 2023 09:45 | 15m | 8,620 | 2,155 |
| 9 | April 18, 2023 02:15 | April 18, 2023 05:30 | 3h 15m | 8,615 | 2,183 |
| 10 | October 2, 2023 23:00 | October 4, 2023 02:15 | 1d 3h | 8,100 | 7,029 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 167 reached 100+ customers, 67 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 | 1.7 hrs | 0.98 |
| CORE Electric Cooperative | 2023 | 2.0 hrs | 0.90 | 64 min | 0.77 |
| Southeast Colorado Power Assn | 2023 | 12.5 hrs | - | 12.0 hrs | - |
| Mountain View Elec Assn, Inc | 2023 | 63 min | 0.52 | 45 min | 0.47 |
| Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | 1.55 | 87 min | 1.30 |
| City of Colorado Springs - (CO) | 2023 | 46 min | 0.64 | 46 min | 0.64 |
| 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 n/a of Colorado's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/colorado/el-paso-county