Elbert County, Colorado Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Elbert County, Colorado had 3 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.30 times the US outage time per person and 0.89 times the Colorado rate. It ranks 25 of 44 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

3 of 7years with a major outage

37 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 40% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 13, 2019, reached 1,038 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 37.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	28,641	15	1
2018	9,568	15	0
2019	40,556	21	1
2020	15,397	18	1
2021	11,719	15	0
2022	20,516	19	0
2023	23,349	20	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
Mar 13, 2019	37.2	1,038	16,852
Aug 7, 2017	3.8	3,865	10,818
Jan 26, 2019	2.5	3,016	7,232
Sep 25, 2023	1.8	5,938	7,193
Mar 24, 2017	10.0	531	4,057

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.