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

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

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Elsewhere in Colorado: 171 customers reported out — statewide status.

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Who serves Routt County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Yampa Valley Electric Association, Xcel Energy and Mountain Parks Electric, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Town of Oak Creek 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 — Routt County, CO

Last significant outage: Sep 23, 2026 — peaked at 2,033 customers, restored in ~15.2 hr (no severe weather).

Across the 11 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.8 hr (median).

Every outage behind these figures (11)

Began	Peak out	Restored in	Weather
Sep 23, 2026	2,033	~15.2 hr	no severe weather
Sep 10, 2026	831	~3.8 hr	no severe weather
Aug 29, 2026	1,564	~6.7 hr	no severe weather
Aug 25, 2026	2,008	~10 hr	no severe weather
Aug 21, 2026	1,507	~30 min	no severe weather
Aug 11, 2026	219	~1.8 hr	no severe weather
Aug 6, 2026	2,245	~9.5 hr	weather alert
Aug 5, 2026	1,925	~4.3 hr	weather alert
Aug 3, 2026	202	~1 hr	weather alert
Aug 1, 2026	1,053	~1.3 hr	no severe weather
Jul 23, 2026	449	~30 min	no severe weather

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 23, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Routt County, CO

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 137 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: ~2,907 customers out in June 2025, restored after about 4 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2024.

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.

Cities with their own pages in Routt County

Steamboat Springs

Communities in Routt County include Steamboat Springs, Hayden, Oak Creek, Yampa and Phippsburg. 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 Routt County, CO?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Routt include Yampa Valley Electric Association, Town of Oak Creek, Xcel Energy and others — 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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