DENVER (KDVR) — Thousands of residents in the Denver metro area were without power on Tuesday night, but the reason was unknown.

According to the Xcel Energy outage map, almost 12,000 customers in the Denver metro area were without power at about 10 p.m. on Tuesday night.

The company had not made any statements about the outage on its social media pages as of the time of publication.

The majority of the outage was located in the northwestern area of the Denver metro, including Arvada, Wheat Ridge and Lakewood.

FOX31 has reached out to Xcel for information on this outage and has not yet received a reply. However, the National Weather Service had recorded some wind gusts up to 36 mph in the area.