Weld County, Colorado Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Weld County, Colorado had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.40 times the US outage time per person and 1.19 times the Colorado rate. It ranks 16 of 44 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

58 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 14, 2021, reached 31,733 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 57.5 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	187,434	134	0
2016	726,159	94	1
2017	173,869	79	1
2018	144,150	119	0
2019	205,679	124	0
2020	266,376	162	2
2021	960,858	147	2
2022	198,052	138	0
2023	359,158	152	1

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 14, 2021	57.5	31,733	711,998
Mar 23, 2016	49.5	39,618	558,130
Mar 19, 2020	18.0	6,414	38,827
Jul 29, 2023	2.5	17,817	35,099
Dec 24, 2017	5.2	8,004	28,155

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.