When will the power be back in Fountain, CO?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Fountain is a city of about 29,457 residents in El Paso County.
Colorado Springs Utilities has reported outages for Fountain by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-09-18) — so when Fountain is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.
ZIP codes in Fountain:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Fountain: the closest other places we track are Colorado Springs, about 13 miles to the north; Monument, about 28 miles to the north; Pueblo, about 29 miles to the south; and Cañon City, about 34 miles to the southwest. Also nearby: Castle Rock (48 mi N), Castle Pines (54 mi N), Parker (57 mi N), Lone Tree (59 mi N), Centennial (63 mi N), Littleton (65 mi N), Greenwood Village (65 mi N) and Englewood (68 mi N).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Aurora (71 mi); northeast toward Fort Morgan (118 mi); east toward Garden City, KS (213 mi); southeast toward Guymon, OK (223 mi); south toward Las Vegas, NM (215 mi); southwest toward Durango (200 mi); west toward Montrose (172 mi); and northwest toward Glenwood Springs (154 mi).
Who serves Fountain?
We track live outage data from Colorado Springs Utilities ↗, Mountain View Electric Association, Black Hills Energy ↗ and Southeast Colorado Power Association in El Paso County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. City of Fountain and CORE Electric Cooperative also serve parts of El Paso County — we don't yet read their own live outage maps.
County context: across all of El Paso County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 1.8 hr. The full record for El Paso County
Common questions
How do I check the power outage status in Fountain, CO?
To check your own street, search a Fountain ZIP code — 80817 — and the map opens on that area.
Does this page show Fountain specifically, or the whole county?
Both, and for Fountain we have the city-level view: Colorado Springs Utilities has published outages for Fountain under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-09-18. When Fountain is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the El Paso County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes Fountain.
