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2024 Boulder County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Boulder County, CO went without power for an average of 11.8 hours, a total of 2.0M customer-hours (Colorado average 4.7 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 799th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Boulder County, 2024
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 6, 2024 02:00 | April 12, 2024 01:30 | 5d 23h | 40,368 | 1.4M |
| 2 | March 14, 2024 03:15 | March 17, 2024 23:45 | 3d 20h | 20,891 | 106K |
| 3 | February 3, 2024 21:15 | February 5, 2024 07:00 | 1d 9h | 11,617 | 30K |
| 4 | August 14, 2024 14:15 | August 17, 2024 00:00 | 2d 9h | 7,351 | 7,547 |
| 5 | November 6, 2024 12:15 | November 7, 2024 04:30 | 16h 15m | 5,719 | 1,503 |
| 6 | July 12, 2024 10:45 | July 13, 2024 20:30 | 1d 9h | 5,485 | 18K |
| 7 | September 11, 2024 14:45 | September 12, 2024 02:30 | 11h 45m | 4,516 | 5,474 |
| 8 | September 20, 2024 03:15 | September 20, 2024 04:00 | 45m | 3,904 | 2,927 |
| 9 | July 25, 2024 14:00 | July 25, 2024 19:45 | 5h 45m | 3,894 | 3,997 |
| 10 | May 6, 2024 12:45 | May 9, 2024 13:15 | 3d | 3,747 | 77K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 142 reached 100+ customers, 42 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Boulder County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 5.9 hrs | 1.68 | 2.6 hrs | 1.36 |
| United Power, Inc | 2024 | 77 min | 1.20 | 77 min | 1.20 |
| Poudre Valley REA, Inc | 2024 | 5.4 hrs | 1.33 | 74 min | 0.72 |
| City of Longmont | 2024 | 19 min | 0.47 | 19 min | 0.47 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Estes Park | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Lyons - (CO) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 166,613 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. Boulder County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Boulder County, CO annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/colorado/boulder-county