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

Power outage history

Lincoln County Colorado

2.8hours

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

24th most of 39 in Colorado 58% below the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 24, 2017 16% of customers out · 90% back in 3.2 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 2.8h / yr State average 3.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.8 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 6.4days Mar 24, 2017, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 48% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 5.7 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 3,630 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 Lincoln'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 5.7 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Lincoln, hours without power per customer

LincolnUS median countyColorado average
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 ’16 10 ’17 1.7 ’18 3.0 ’19 2.8 ’20 2.1 ’21 1.6 ’22 2.5 ’23 2.8 ’24 5.7 ’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
Mar 24, 2017 Winter storm 579 16% 6.4 d 3.2 d 23k
Mar 18, 2025 Winter storm 1,056 29% 15 h 7.2 h 10k
May 28, 2017 No storm report 803 22% 6.2 h 1.8 h 3.7k
Mar 4, 2025 Winter storm 786 22% 9.5 h 8.5 h 3.6k
Dec 7, 2017 No storm report 1,920 53% 2.0 h 1.8 h 3.4k
Oct 26, 2021 Windstorm 533 15% 12 h 12 min 3.3k
Mar 25, 2024 Winter storm 252 7% 9.0 h 1.0 h 2.2k
Jul 26, 2023 No storm report 619 17% 3.8 h 3.8 h 2.1k
Mar 14, 2019 Winter storm 453 12% 13 h 2.5 h 1.8k
Mar 15, 2020 No storm report 507 14% 4.0 h 3.0 h 1.6k
May 17, 2022 No storm report 249 7% 9.8 h 1.0 h 1.6k
Nov 8, 2024 Winter storm 76 2% 20 h – 1.4k

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 +4h 90% by +4h

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

  • No storm on record 52%
  • Winter storm 32%
  • Thunderstorms 7.2%
  • Windstorm 7.1%
  • Tornadoes 0.9%
  • Flooding 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Lincoln

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
Mountain View Elec Assn, Inc Cooperative 130 30 0.84 15.7 61k
Southeast Colorado Power Assn Cooperative 1,290 1,280 – 17.9 8.2k
K C Electric Association Cooperative – – – 13.0 3.4k
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+

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 3,630 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 →