County annual report · FIPS 08039
2023 Elbert County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Elbert County, CO went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Colorado average 2.1 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 1895th 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 Elbert 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 | September 25, 2023 22:45 | September 26, 2023 03:00 | 4h 15m | 5,938 | 7,195 |
| 2 | April 12, 2023 19:30 | April 12, 2023 20:00 | 30m | 2,130 | 1,065 |
| 3 | June 22, 2023 09:45 | June 24, 2023 01:30 | 1d 15h | 1,214 | 4,141 |
| 4 | August 3, 2023 02:00 | August 3, 2023 08:45 | 6h 45m | 1,190 | 1,095 |
| 5 | June 22, 2023 03:45 | June 22, 2023 08:00 | 4h 15m | 1,125 | 2,795 |
| 6 | August 14, 2023 15:45 | August 14, 2023 20:30 | 4h 45m | 1,112 | 875 |
| 7 | December 4, 2023 01:15 | December 4, 2023 02:30 | 1h 15m | 1,012 | 1,012 |
| 8 | May 28, 2023 09:45 | May 28, 2023 13:15 | 3h 30m | 876 | 1,655 |
| 9 | March 31, 2023 16:15 | March 31, 2023 19:15 | 3h | 628 | 663 |
| 10 | July 19, 2023 23:00 | July 20, 2023 00:30 | 1h 30m | 558 | 837 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 29 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Elbert 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 |
| Mountain View Elec Assn, Inc | 2023 | 63 min | 0.52 | 45 min | 0.47 |
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 ÷ 10,107 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. Elbert County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elbert 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/elbert-county