County annual report · FIPS 08041
2025 El Paso County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in El Paso County, CO went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 331K customer-hours (Colorado average 4.6 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2782nd of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in El Paso County, 2025
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 27, 2025 06:30 | August 27, 2025 11:00 | 4h 30m | 8,823 | 2,217 |
| 2 | May 27, 2025 13:45 | June 1, 2025 21:00 | 5d 7h | 7,554 | 3,906 |
| 3 | March 18, 2025 04:15 | March 20, 2025 20:30 | 2d 16h | 6,445 | 47K |
| 4 | November 7, 2025 14:30 | November 7, 2025 21:30 | 7h | 6,392 | 1,607 |
| 5 | March 4, 2025 05:00 | March 6, 2025 23:45 | 2d 18h | 5,503 | 39K |
| 6 | September 15, 2025 19:15 | September 16, 2025 13:30 | 18h 15m | 5,215 | 4,747 |
| 7 | July 10, 2025 14:45 | July 11, 2025 04:30 | 13h 45m | 4,453 | 1,362 |
| 8 | August 12, 2025 13:00 | August 15, 2025 03:30 | 2d 14h | 4,361 | 3,598 |
| 9 | September 16, 2025 15:15 | September 17, 2025 08:45 | 17h 30m | 4,332 | 1,339 |
| 10 | May 1, 2025 13:00 | May 9, 2025 14:00 | 8d 1h | 4,318 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 153 reached 100+ customers, 59 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 El Paso County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/colorado/el-paso-county