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Who serves Jefferson County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Xcel Energy and United Power ↗, 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. For the parent company's combined picture, see Xcel Energy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Jefferson County, CO
⚡ Power here was restored about 29 hours ago — the outage peaked at 1,506 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 1,506 customers, restored in ~7.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 40 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 7.3 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 13, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Jefferson County, CO
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,978 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
27 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
5.3 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: ~156,331 customers out in February 2019, restored after about 30 min. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
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 Jefferson County
Communities in Jefferson County include Lakewood, Arvada, Westminster, Wheat Ridge, Golden, Edgewater, Mountain View and Morrison. 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 Jefferson County, CO?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Jefferson include Xcel Energy, CORE Electric Cooperative and United Power — 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.
