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

Power outage history

Gilpin County Colorado

7.9hours

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

1.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Sep 1, 2020 31% of customers out · 90% back in 5.2 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 7.9h / yr State average 3.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 11.3 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 30hours Dec 9, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 31% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 11 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 2,626 ORNL customer model · 4 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 Gilpin'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

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 11 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Gilpin, hours without power per customer

GilpinUS median countyColorado average
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 ’15 ’16 ’17 3.0 ’18 9.4 ’19 11 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 8.5 ’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
Aug 31, 2020 No storm report 819 31% 10 h 5.2 h 7.0k
Dec 19, 2024 Windstorm 874 33% 8.0 h 5.5 h 5.5k
Dec 9, 2025 Windstorm 1,339 51% 30 h 5.5 h 5.1k
Nov 9, 2020 No storm report 327 12% 15 h 24 h 4.7k
Dec 29, 2017 Windstorm 818 31% 9.2 h 7.8 h 4.7k
Sep 12, 2020 No storm report 327 12% 12 h 12 h 3.8k
Feb 3, 2021 No storm report 898 34% 6.2 h 1.2 h 3.5k
Jul 26, 2023 No storm report 1,748 67% 2.5 h 2.0 h 3.3k
Sep 11, 2020 No storm report 327 12% 10 h 10 h 3.3k
Nov 30, 2019 Windstorm 753 29% 12 h 6.5 h 2.7k
May 23, 2019 No storm report 797 30% 3.0 h 5.0 h 2.4k
Dec 11, 2025 Windstorm 832 32% 14 h 6.0 h 2.2k

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 +8h

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

  • No storm on record 69%
  • Windstorm 18%
  • Winter storm 11%
  • Wildfire 1.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Gilpin

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
United Power, Inc Cooperative 303 90 1.18 16.5 103k

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+

All Colorado counties →

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 2,626 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 →