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

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

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Elsewhere in Colorado: 3,489 customers reported out — statewide status.

Updated 10:31 PM MDT.

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Who serves Elbert County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Mountain View Electric Association, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. CORE Electric Cooperative also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.

Outage history — Elbert County, CO

Last significant outage: Aug 24, 2026 — peaked at 672 customers, restored in ~30 min (no severe weather).

Across the 7 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.2 hr (median).

Every outage behind these figures (7)

Began	Peak out	Restored in	Weather
Aug 24, 2026	672	~30 min	no severe weather
Aug 21, 2026	299	~4.2 hr	no severe weather
Aug 17, 2026	617	~8.7 hr	no severe weather
Aug 16, 2026	1,724	~1.7 hr	wind/storm
Aug 10, 2026	359	~1.5 hr	no severe weather
Aug 2, 2026	1,089	~4.8 hr	heat event
Jul 29, 2026	1,143	~2.2 hr	weather alert

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 29, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Elbert County, CO

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 151 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025. Typical restoration ran ~2 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: ~5,938 customers out in September 2023, restored after about 1.8 hr.

Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level records 2014–2025, replayed through the same event rules as our tracking archive above with two differences: outages shorter than half an hour count here, and a reading above twice the county's customers or households is capped. They cover a far longer period than we have been tracking — a different set of outages, so the two typical times differ. These are federal historical records, not events tracked live by this site.

Communities covered

Communities in Elbert County include Elizabeth, Kiowa, Simla, Agate, Matheson and Ponderosa Park. 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 Elbert County, CO?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Elbert include Mountain View Electric Association and CORE Electric Cooperative — 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.

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