Adams County, Colorado Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Adams County, Colorado had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.33 times the US outage time per person and 0.98 times the Colorado rate. It ranks 22 of 44 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

75 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 13, 2019, reached 45,703 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 75.2 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	170,542	142	0
2016	528,561	94	1
2017	153,118	118	0
2018	412,697	177	3
2019	1,292,466	126	1
2020	397,974	171	1
2021	292,479	200	0
2022	320,628	149	0
2023	331,317	268	2

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Mar 13, 2019	75.2	45,703	1,088,037
Mar 23, 2016	45.8	30,136	402,441
Jun 6, 2020	50.2	18,345	123,161
Apr 17, 2018	42.2	12,316	119,996
May 21, 2022	40.0	3,783	48,945

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.