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2016 Otero County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Otero County, CO went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 5,694 customer-hours (Colorado average 1.7 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 40 Colorado counties and 1604th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Otero County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 10, 2016 07:30 | April 11, 2016 15:30 | 1d 8h | 1,323 | 3,615 |
| 2 | April 16, 2016 16:15 | April 16, 2016 16:45 | 30m | 1,171 | 370 |
| 3 | February 18, 2016 22:45 | February 19, 2016 00:00 | 1h 15m | 830 | 477 |
| 4 | September 13, 2016 17:45 | September 13, 2016 18:00 | 15m | 379 | 95 |
| 5 | April 16, 2016 17:30 | April 16, 2016 18:30 | 1h | 310 | 310 |
| 6 | June 1, 2016 20:00 | June 1, 2016 20:45 | 45m | 78 | 59 |
| 7 | June 6, 2016 11:00 | June 6, 2016 13:15 | 2h 15m | 52 | 42 |
| 8 | September 4, 2016 21:30 | September 4, 2016 23:00 | 1h 30m | 51 | 39 |
| 9 | July 29, 2016 03:45 | July 29, 2016 04:00 | 15m | 31 | 8 |
| 10 | January 20, 2016 16:15 | January 20, 2016 21:30 | 5h 15m | 24 | 126 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 5 reached 100+ customers, 2 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Otero County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Co of Colorado | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 1.23 | 86 min | 0.97 |
| Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC | 2016 | 77 min | 1.11 | 77 min | 1.11 |
| Southeast Colorado Power Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| San Isabel Electric Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of La Junta - (CO) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Colorado's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,206 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Otero County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Otero County, CO annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/colorado/otero-county