Douglas County, Colorado Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Douglas County, Colorado had 1 major outage from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.11 times the US outage time per person and 0.32 times the Colorado rate. It ranks 40 of 44 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.1major outages per year

1 of 9years with a major outage

38 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Marhardest months

June and March made up 31% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 13, 2019, reached 3,849 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 45.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Colorado counties

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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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	54,882	42	0
2016	65,240	31	0
2017	64,168	61	0
2018	61,006	61	0
2019	167,123	78	0
2020	126,000	64	1
2021	92,754	54	0
2022	172,357	91	0
2023	130,338	85	0

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	45.8	3,849	52,688
Jun 6, 2020	37.8	5,029	39,708
Jun 29, 2021	1.5	24,204	24,148
Feb 14, 2016	20.2	1,153	23,317
Oct 25, 2015	7.0	2,321	16,242

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.