County annual report · FIPS 08041
2024 El Paso County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in El Paso County, CO went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 450K customer-hours (Colorado average 4.7 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2645th 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 El Paso 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 | January 25, 2024 00:45 | January 26, 2024 11:30 | 1d 10h | 20,540 | 13K |
| 2 | May 6, 2024 10:15 | May 9, 2024 00:45 | 2d 14h | 10,944 | 100K |
| 3 | July 16, 2024 00:45 | July 17, 2024 05:30 | 1d 4h | 9,094 | 3,140 |
| 4 | March 19, 2024 13:15 | March 20, 2024 13:00 | 23h 45m | 7,708 | 8,775 |
| 5 | April 7, 2024 11:00 | April 7, 2024 22:30 | 11h 30m | 5,539 | 16K |
| 6 | August 19, 2024 09:15 | August 20, 2024 11:00 | 1d 1h | 5,347 | 3,093 |
| 7 | August 15, 2024 12:00 | August 16, 2024 11:45 | 23h 45m | 5,321 | 4,640 |
| 8 | October 14, 2024 17:30 | October 15, 2024 09:15 | 15h 45m | 5,097 | 3,338 |
| 9 | May 29, 2024 14:45 | May 30, 2024 04:45 | 14h | 5,071 | 2,361 |
| 10 | May 24, 2024 15:30 | May 24, 2024 21:30 | 6h | 4,964 | 4,699 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 155 reached 100+ customers, 61 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 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 |
| CORE Electric Cooperative | 2024 | 3.5 hrs | 0.93 | 74 min | 0.75 |
| Southeast Colorado Power Assn | 2024 | 11.2 hrs | - | 7.9 hrs | - |
| Mountain View Elec Assn, Inc | 2024 | 56 min | 0.49 | 42 min | 0.46 |
| Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC | 2024 | 5.4 hrs | 2.39 | 1.7 hrs | 1.42 |
| City of Colorado Springs - (CO) | 2024 | 63 min | 0.87 | 45 min | 0.81 |
| City of Fountain | 2024 | 18 min | 0.15 | 18 min | 0.15 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 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, 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/el-paso-county