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

Power outage history

Pueblo County Colorado

2.4hours

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

26th most of 39 in Colorado 63% below the national median

Worst outage on record May 21, 2022 21% of customers out · 90% back in 24 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 2.4h / yr State average 3.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 38hours May 21, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 63% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 4.7 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 52,226 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 Pueblo's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.7 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Pueblo, hours without power per customer

PuebloUS median countyColorado average
0 2 4 6 8 0.9 ’15 0.6 ’16 2.3 ’17 0.4 ’18 1.6 ’19 1.2 ’20 4.2 ’21 4.7 ’22 2.0 ’23 3.6 ’24 2.0 ’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
May 21, 2022 Winter storm 10,943 21% 38 h 24 h 144k
Dec 15, 2021 Windstorm 13,995 27% 24 h 6.8 h 83k
Mar 24, 2017 Windstorm 6,846 13% 17 h 2.5 h 59k
Aug 13, 2024 Thunderstorms 5,611 11% 27 h 20 h 57k
Dec 15, 2021 Windstorm 17,258 33% 5.2 h 48 min 48k
Apr 29, 2017 Winter storm 10,358 20% 12 h 6.0 h 35k
Aug 10, 2019 Thunderstorms 11,807 23% 6.8 h 2.0 h 23k
Apr 17, 2025 No storm report 11,006 21% 2.0 h 48 min 19k
Jul 5, 2025 No storm report 4,802 9% 3.2 h 48 min 13k
Aug 8, 2020 No storm report 5,999 11% 4.0 h 4.0 h 11k
Jun 24, 2015 No storm report 8,266 16% 1.2 h 1.2 h 10k
Jun 11, 2022 Windstorm 5,026 10% 2.8 h 2.8 h 9.9k

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 Pueblo from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 37%
  • Winter storm 26%
  • Windstorm 21%
  • Thunderstorms 14%
  • Flooding 2.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Pueblo

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
Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC Investor Owned 95 95 0.90 18.7 98k
Mountain View Elec Assn, Inc Cooperative 130 30 0.84 15.7 61k
San Isabel Electric Assn, Inc Cooperative 87 87 0.79 18.9 23k
Southeast Colorado Power Assn Cooperative 1,290 1,280 – 17.9 8.2k
WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration Federal – – – – –

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 52,226 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 →