Power outage history
Morgan County Colorado
2.1hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
30th most of 39 in Colorado 68% below the national median
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 Morgan's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.7 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Morgan, hours without power per customer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 2018 | Tornadoes | 3,578 | 25% | 25 h | 17 h | 57k |
| Mar 13, 2019 | Winter storm | 2,634 | 18% | 44 h | 24 h | 42k |
| Aug 12, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 4,196 | 29% | 19 h | 16 h | 39k |
| Mar 19, 2020 | Winter storm | 2,695 | 19% | 10 h | 4.5 h | 11k |
| Apr 5, 2022 | No storm report | 1,073 | 7% | 7.2 h | 6.8 h | 5.5k |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Windstorm | 2,968 | 20% | 4.8 h | 3.2 h | 4.7k |
| Jul 23, 2024 | No storm report | 3,490 | 24% | 1.5 h | 1.2 h | 4.7k |
| Aug 7, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 1,404 | 10% | 4.5 h | 2.2 h | 4.2k |
| May 10, 2015 | Flooding | 1,711 | 12% | 2.5 h | 30 min | 4.1k |
| May 14, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,872 | 13% | 4.8 h | 3.2 h | 3.7k |
| Aug 26, 2018 | No storm report | 1,996 | 14% | 2.0 h | 1.2 h | 3.4k |
| Jul 22, 2018 | No storm report | 1,226 | 8% | 1.8 h | 12 min | 2.1k |
| Nov 6, 2024 | Winter storm | 864 | 6% | 4.2 h | 3.8 h | 1.9k |
| Jan 16, 2019 | No storm report | 1,225 | 8% | 1.8 h | 1.2 h | 1.8k |
| May 7, 2020 | No storm report | 1,911 | 13% | 2.8 h | 30 min | 1.7k |
| Oct 12, 2025 | No storm report | 1,720 | 12% | 1.0 h | 2.0 h | 1.7k |
| Jul 24, 2022 | Flooding | 603 | 4% | 2.8 h | – | 1.3k |
| May 21, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 374 | 3% | 4.0 h | – | 1.3k |
| Jun 27, 2022 | No storm report | 1,232 | 9% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 1.2k |
| Jun 1, 2022 | No storm report | 601 | 4% | 2.0 h | – | 1.2k |
| Sep 15, 2019 | No storm report | 231 | 2% | 5.2 h | – | 1.2k |
| May 23, 2015 | No storm report | 748 | 5% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 1.1k |
| Jan 17, 2021 | No storm report | 307 | 2% | 3.5 h | – | 1.1k |
| Jun 14, 2019 | No storm report | 277 | 2% | 3.8 h | – | 1.0k |
| Mar 18, 2025 | No storm report | 438 | 3% | 5.0 h | – | 990 |
| Jun 15, 2024 | No storm report | 995 | 7% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 984 |
| Jul 8, 2018 | No storm report | 1,224 | 8% | 48 min | 48 min | 918 |
| May 14, 2019 | No storm report | 154 | 1% | 5.5 h | – | 845 |
| Jun 21, 2020 | No storm report | 303 | 2% | 2.8 h | – | 833 |
| Jun 6, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 228 | 2% | 4.8 h | – | 830 |
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.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Morgan from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tornadoes 26%
- Winter storm 25%
- No storm on record 25%
- Thunderstorms 21%
- Windstorm 2.8%
- Flooding 0.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Morgan
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 |
| Morgan County Rural Elec Assn | Cooperative | 86 | 86 | – | 14.5 | 5.9k |
| City of Fort Morgan | Municipal | – | – | – | 7.3 | 5.4k |
| Highline Electric Assn | Cooperative | – | – | – | 15.2 | 5.0k |
| 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.
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 14,501 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 →