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2023 Lincoln County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lincoln County, CO went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 9,117 customer-hours (Colorado average 2.1 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2118th 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 Lincoln 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 | August 8, 2023 18:30 | August 8, 2023 21:00 | 2h 30m | 863 | 1,232 |
| 2 | July 25, 2023 23:00 | July 26, 2023 19:45 | 20h 45m | 619 | 2,304 |
| 3 | June 16, 2023 20:15 | June 17, 2023 02:00 | 5h 45m | 265 | 1,290 |
| 4 | December 18, 2023 19:15 | December 18, 2023 20:45 | 1h 30m | 87 | 78 |
| 5 | April 13, 2023 00:30 | April 13, 2023 01:45 | 1h 15m | 83 | 104 |
| 6 | May 3, 2023 21:00 | May 3, 2023 23:15 | 2h 15m | 82 | 145 |
| 7 | August 4, 2023 01:30 | August 4, 2023 17:00 | 15h 30m | 82 | 961 |
| 8 | May 11, 2023 02:45 | May 11, 2023 06:00 | 3h 15m | 77 | 200 |
| 9 | August 6, 2023 02:45 | August 6, 2023 09:45 | 7h | 69 | 134 |
| 10 | June 11, 2023 13:45 | June 12, 2023 15:30 | 1d 1h | 46 | 137 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 3 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 n/a of Colorado's customers in 2023; 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, 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/lincoln-county