Lake County, Colorado Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

Lake County, Colorado had no major outages from 2018 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.33 times the US outage time per person and 0.99 times the Colorado rate. It ranks 22 of 44 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

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Nonelongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 33% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 17, 2020, reached 1,727 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 2.2 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages
2018	2,371	4
2019	8,533	11
2020	8,526	7
2021	1,908	3
2022	3,322	4
2023	10,913	7

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
Nov 17, 2020	2.2	1,727	3,884
Dec 25, 2023	1.8	1,777	3,108
Jun 23, 2019	5.2	520	2,724
Oct 29, 2023	5.5	683	2,625
Aug 1, 2023	3.5	556	1,944

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.