Teller County, Colorado Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Teller County, Colorado had 4 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.58 times the US outage time per person and 1.74 times the Colorado rate. It ranks 10 of 44 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

54 hrslongest major outage

May, Dechardest months

May and December made up 78% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 11, 2023, reached 8,165 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 53.8 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	Major outages
2015	2,028	1	0
2016	4,310	4	0
2017	11,636	11	0
2018	2,024	6	0
2019	6,172	13	0
2020	12,797	14	0
2021	70,020	14	1
2022	49,845	19	1
2023	157,462	9	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
May 11, 2023	53.8	8,165	136,927
Dec 15, 2021	29.8	5,093	59,117
May 21, 2022	10.5	6,863	32,664
Mar 31, 2023	8.0	2,447	12,540
Apr 2, 2023	5.8	1,199	4,883

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.