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

Power outage history

Washington County Colorado

The outage record here is too thin for a reliable yearly average. Raw events are listed below.

Worst outage on record Jun 14, 2019 3% of customers out · lasted 3.8 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year –h / yr State average 3.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year – Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% – Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4hours Jul 9, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 22% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 4,309 ORNL customer model · 0 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 Washington'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

Washington, hours without power per customer

WashingtonUS median countyColorado average
0 2 4 6 8 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 ’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
Jun 14, 2019 No storm report 128 3% 3.8 h – 480
Jul 24, 2019 No storm report 129 3% 3.2 h – 419
Jun 21, 2020 No storm report 140 3% 2.8 h – 384
Aug 20, 2020 No storm report 120 3% 2.5 h – 233
Mar 23, 2018 Windstorm 116 3% 2.0 h – 232
Aug 5, 2019 No storm report 130 3% 3.2 h – 216
Jul 9, 2021 Thunderstorms 47 1% 4.2 h – 200
Jun 17, 2018 Thunderstorms 116 3% 1.5 h – 174
Sep 4, 2019 No storm report 108 3% 1.0 h – 107
May 18, 2022 No storm report 47 1% 2.2 h – 106
Jun 6, 2020 No storm report 138 3% 48 min – 104
May 28, 2020 No storm report 46 1% 1.5 h – 69

When it happens

The outage clock

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

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

  • No storm on record 78%
  • Thunderstorms 13%
  • Windstorm 8.3%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Washington

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
Mountain View Elec Assn, Inc Cooperative 130 30 0.84 15.7 61k
Morgan County Rural Elec Assn Cooperative 86 86 – 14.5 5.9k
Highline Electric Assn Cooperative – – – 15.2 5.0k
Y-W Electric Assn Inc Cooperative 700 700 – 15.7 4.9k
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 4,309 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 →