Morgan County, Colorado Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Morgan County, Colorado had 2 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.24 times the US outage time per person and 0.71 times the Colorado rate. It ranks 32 of 44 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

39 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Marhardest months

July and March made up 73% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 29, 2018, reached 3,578 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 23.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	9,516	4	0
2016	742	2	0
2017	216	2	0
2018	65,780	10	1
2019	45,576	6	1
2020	16,836	13	0
2021	5,130	8	0
2022	11,952	11	0
2023	2,985	5	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
Jul 29, 2018	23.0	3,578	56,752
Mar 13, 2019	39.0	2,634	41,320
Mar 19, 2020	7.5	2,695	10,854
Apr 6, 2022	7.2	1,073	5,494
May 10, 2015	2.5	1,711	4,088

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.