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Who serves Pitkin County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Holy Cross Energy and Xcel Energy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Aspen 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 — Pitkin County, CO
Last significant outage: Sep 29, 2026 — peaked at 230 customers, restored in ~3.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 10 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 8, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Pitkin County, CO
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
143 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
3 major events of 10,000+ customers.
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: ~12,971 customers out in October 2020, restored after about 3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2016.
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.
Communities covered
Communities in Pitkin County include Aspen, Snowmass Village, Norrie, Redstone and Woody Creek. 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 Pitkin County, CO?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Pitkin include Holy Cross Energy, Xcel Energy and City of Aspen — 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.
