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Who serves Montrose County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Delta Montrose Electric Association, San Miguel Power Association and Xcel Energy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. 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 — Montrose County, CO
Last significant outage: Sep 24, 2026 — peaked at 438 customers, restored in ~1.7 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 11 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2 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 — Montrose County, CO
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
116 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
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: ~6,633 customers out in November 2024, restored after about 1.3 hr.
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 Montrose County
Communities in Montrose County include Olathe, Nucla, Naturita and Redvale. 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 Montrose County, CO?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Montrose include Delta Montrose Electric Association, San Miguel Power Association and Xcel Energy — 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.
