Power Out Map
– 0% of Elbert out 0 customers out in Colorado

Power outage history

Elbert County Colorado

3.3hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

18th most of 39 in Colorado 50% below the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 18, 2025 32% of customers out · 90% back in 14 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 3.3h / yr State average 3.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 1hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 39hours Mar 13, 2019, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 39% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 5.5 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 10,107 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Elbert's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.5 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Elbert, hours without power per customer

ElbertUS median countyColorado average
0 2 4 6 8 ’16 3.3 ’17 1.7 ’18 5.2 ’19 3.0 ’20 2.3 ’21 2.9 ’22 3.2 ’23 2.4 ’24 5.5 ’25 US 6.6 CO 3.0

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Mar 18, 2025 Winter storm 3,265 32% 20 h 14 h 18k
Mar 13, 2019 Winter storm 1,038 10% 39 h 14 h 17k
Aug 7, 2017 No storm report 3,865 38% 3.8 h 3.2 h 11k
Nov 14, 2025 No storm report 1,231 12% 8.8 h 1.5 h 7.3k
Jan 25, 2019 No storm report 3,016 30% 2.5 h 2.5 h 7.2k
Sep 25, 2023 No storm report 5,938 59% 1.8 h 30 min 7.2k
Apr 6, 2024 No storm report 2,378 24% 5.2 h 4.0 h 7.1k
Mar 4, 2025 Winter storm 518 5% 15 h 5.5 h 5.0k
Mar 24, 2017 Winter storm 531 5% 15 h 12 h 4.5k
Jun 6, 2020 Thunderstorms 400 4% 14 h – 3.7k
Sep 21, 2019 No storm report 1,856 18% 1.8 h 30 min 3.2k
Feb 13, 2021 No storm report 437 4% 8.5 h – 3.1k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +2h 90% by +4h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Elbert from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 61%
  • Winter storm 28%
  • Thunderstorms 7.2%
  • Windstorm 3.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Elbert

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Colorado territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Public Service Co of Colorado Investor Owned 360 149 1.58 15.9 1.4M
CORE Electric Cooperative Cooperative 381 52 0.97 15.6 169k
Mountain View Elec Assn, Inc Cooperative 130 30 0.84 15.7 61k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Colorado

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 10,107 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →