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Who serves El Paso County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Colorado Springs Utilities ↗, Mountain View Electric Association, Black Hills Energy ↗ and Southeast Colorado Power Association, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Fountain and CORE Electric Cooperative also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — El Paso County, CO
⚡ Power here was restored about 7 hours ago — the outage peaked at 366 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 3, 2026 — peaked at 366 customers, restored in ~5.7 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 28 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4.9 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 22, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — El Paso County, CO
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,279 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
16 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
1.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Colorado norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.9 hr.
Largest on record: ~33,979 customers out in December 2021, restored after about 3.5 days. 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 El Paso County
Communities in El Paso County include Colorado Springs, Fountain, Monument, Manitou Springs, Palmer Lake, Calhan, Green Mountain Falls and Ramah. 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 El Paso County, CO?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of El Paso include Colorado Springs Utilities, Mountain View Electric Association, Southeast Colorado Power Association and others — 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.
