Power Out Map
– 0% of Clear Creek out 0 customers out in Colorado

Power outage history

Clear Creek County Colorado

31hours

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

1st most of 39 in Colorado 4.6× the national median

Worst outage on record Dec 19, 2025 100% of customers out · 90% back in 2.5 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 31h / yr State average 3.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 20.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.2days Dec 17, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 54% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 3.6 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 3,877 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 Clear Creek'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 3.6 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Clear Creek, hours without power per customer

Clear CreekUS median countyColorado average
0 20 40 60 80 100 1.4 ’15 1.3 ’16 10 ’17 8.5 ’18 18 ’19 25 ’20 15 ’21 23 ’22 16 ’23 52 ’24 86 ’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
Dec 17, 2025 Windstorm 3,877 100% 5.2 d 2.5 d 218k
Apr 6, 2024 Windstorm 2,830 73% 2.3 d 34 h 81k
Dec 19, 2024 Windstorm 3,877 100% 9.0 h 7.0 h 25k
May 31, 2022 Winter storm 1,972 51% 26 h 6.2 h 19k
Dec 9, 2025 Windstorm 2,219 57% 18 h 3.0 h 14k
Nov 30, 2019 Windstorm 1,429 37% 36 h 22 h 14k
Sep 27, 2025 No storm report 3,651 94% 5.2 h 6.2 h 13k
Oct 12, 2025 No storm report 1,571 41% 8.2 h 8.0 h 13k
Dec 11, 2024 No storm report 3,603 93% 4.5 h 3.0 h 13k
Jun 6, 2020 No storm report 835 22% 45 h 27 h 12k
May 6, 2024 Windstorm 2,345 60% 21 h 1.0 h 12k
Nov 23, 2018 Winter storm 2,771 71% 10 h 3.5 h 9.7k

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 +6h 90% by +10h

When it happens

The outage clock

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

00061218 Jan inside

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

  • No storm on record 46%
  • Windstorm 43%
  • Winter storm 10%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Clear Creek

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
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 3,877 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 →