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2025 Lincoln County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Lincoln County, CO went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Colorado average 4.6 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 1343rd 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 Lincoln 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 | March 19, 2025 02:15 | March 20, 2025 20:30 | 1d 18h | 1,056 | 11K |
| 2 | March 4, 2025 10:45 | March 5, 2025 23:30 | 1d 12h | 786 | 3,745 |
| 3 | November 20, 2025 23:30 | November 21, 2025 05:30 | 6h | 403 | 195 |
| 4 | November 18, 2025 19:30 | November 18, 2025 21:30 | 2h | 402 | 801 |
| 5 | March 6, 2025 14:45 | March 6, 2025 15:00 | 15m | 178 | 45 |
| 6 | August 12, 2025 14:15 | August 12, 2025 20:15 | 6h | 121 | 135 |
| 7 | August 24, 2025 23:30 | August 25, 2025 01:45 | 2h 15m | 118 | 219 |
| 8 | January 16, 2025 16:30 | January 16, 2025 16:45 | 15m | 102 | 26 |
| 9 | July 20, 2025 23:15 | July 21, 2025 06:45 | 7h 30m | 85 | 145 |
| 10 | August 28, 2025 07:15 | August 28, 2025 12:00 | 4h 45m | 83 | 339 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 8 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/lincoln-county