Outages reported by XCEL Energy have hit parts of Minnesota, Colorado, and other states during storms and safety shutoffs.

A large power outage in the Denver metro area on Sunday afternoon left hundreds of thousands of people in the dark.

Xcel said more than 195,000 customers were initially impacted by the outage Sunday afternoon.

On Sunday afternoon, residents across the southeast Denver metro area began reporting widespread outages.

More than 4,100 Xcel customers remained without power as of 1:30 p.m. Monday in south Boulder and parts of Boulder County.

Xcel Energy confirmed plans to shut off power in Northern Colorado this week due to extreme fire risk.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Friday, Dec. 19 update: Nearly 100,000 across Colorado lose power due to wind, planned Xcel shut-offs that could take several days to restore More than ...