When will the power be back in Lakewood, CO?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Lakewood is a city of about 156,868 residents in Jefferson County.
Xcel Energy has reported outages for Lakewood by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-08-16) — so when Lakewood is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.
Around Lakewood: the closest other places we track are Wheat Ridge, about 5 miles to the north; Golden, about 6 miles to the northwest; Englewood, about 7 miles to the southeast; and Littleton, about 9 miles to the southeast. Also nearby: Arvada (9 mi N), Greenwood Village (12 mi SE), Federal Heights (13 mi NE), Westminster (13 mi N), Denver (14 mi E), Centennial (15 mi SE), Northglenn (16 mi NE) and Superior (16 mi N).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Broomfield (18 mi); northeast toward Thornton (18 mi); east toward Aurora (21 mi); southeast toward Lone Tree (17 mi); south toward Monument (46 mi); southwest toward Montrose (170 mi); west toward Glenwood Springs (118 mi); and northwest toward Steamboat Springs (105 mi).
Who serves Lakewood?
We track live outage data from Xcel Energy and United Power ↗ in Jefferson County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. CORE Electric Cooperative also serves parts of Jefferson County — we don't yet read its own live outage map. For the parent company's combined picture, see Xcel Energy outages across every state it serves.
Lakewood's last tracked outage began Oct 2, peaked at 110 customers out, and was restored in 2 hours. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 2 hours.
- Oct 2 — 110 customers out, restored in 2 hours
- Sep 29 — 31 customers out, restored in 2 hours
- Sep 28 — 28 customers out, restored in 3 hours
- Sep 28 — 66 customers out, restored in 4 hours
County context: across all of Jefferson County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 5.3 hr. The full record for Jefferson County
Common questions
Does this page show Lakewood specifically, or the whole county?
Both, and for Lakewood we have the city-level view: Xcel Energy has published outages for Lakewood under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-08-16. When Lakewood is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the Jefferson County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes Lakewood.
