El Paso County, Colorado Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

El Paso County, Colorado had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.17 times the US outage time per person and 0.51 times the Colorado rate. It ranks 38 of 44 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

122 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Janhardest months

December and January made up 38% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 15, 2021, reached 33,979 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 122.5 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	83,402	88	0
2016	226,724	144	0
2017	528,320	161	2
2018	61,252	56	0
2019	151,187	46	0
2020	284,239	160	0
2021	968,274	137	3
2022	220,995	176	1
2023	289,877	188	0

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Dec 15, 2021	122.5	33,979	689,629
Jan 9, 2017	66.2	20,251	253,148
Mar 14, 2019	39.2	7,312	117,829
Mar 24, 2017	20.0	13,537	74,683
Jul 13, 2020	2.5	23,613	51,977

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.