When will the power be back in Denver County, CO?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Denver County, CO right now.

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Elsewhere in Colorado: 71 customers reported out — statewide status.

Updated 9:31 PM MDT.

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Who serves Denver County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Xcel Energy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. This is the utility we track here, not necessarily the only one serving it — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see Xcel Energy outages across every state it serves.

Outage history — Denver County, CO

⚡ Power here was restored about 29 hours ago — the outage peaked at 1,486 customers.

Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 1,486 customers, restored in ~8.2 hr (no severe weather).

Across the 39 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 8.5 hr.

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 8, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Denver County, CO

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 2,142 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 34 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~4 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.

That is longer than the Colorado norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.9 hr.

Largest on record: ~141,684 customers out in February 2019, restored after about 16.5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2023.

Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records, not events tracked live by this site.

Cities we track in Denver County

Denver

Communities in Denver County include Glendale and Holly Hills. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.

Common questions

How do I report a power outage in Denver County, CO?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Denver include Xcel Energy — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

Nearby counties & areas

Broomfield County · Jefferson County · Arapahoe County · Adams County · Douglas County · Boulder County · Gilpin County · Clear Creek County

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Denver in detail

ZIP codes in Denver:

Denver also extends into a neighboring county: 80214 · 80215 · 80221 · 80225 · 80226 · 80227 · 80228 · 80229 · 80232 · 80233 · 80234 · 80235 · 80247 · 80260. Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Denver: the closest other places we track are Commerce City, about 7 miles to the north; Aurora, about 9 miles to the southeast; Englewood, about 10 miles to the southwest; and Federal Heights, about 10 miles to the northwest. Also nearby: Greenwood Village (10 mi S), Thornton (12 mi N), Northglenn (12 mi NW), Centennial (12 mi S), Wheat Ridge (12 mi W), Westminster (13 mi NW), Lakewood (14 mi W) and Littleton (14 mi SW).

Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Brighton (15 mi); northeast toward Fort Morgan (67 mi); southeast toward Garden City, KS (249 mi); south toward Lone Tree (16 mi); southwest toward Montrose (183 mi); west toward Arvada (15 mi); and northwest toward Broomfield (16 mi).