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2017 Otero County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Otero County, CO went without power for an average of 7.5 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Colorado average 1.5 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 48 Colorado counties and 706th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Otero County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 24, 2017 12:15 | March 24, 2017 21:00 | 8h 45m | 3,420 | 28K |
| 2 | July 27, 2017 01:00 | July 27, 2017 02:30 | 1h 30m | 1,167 | 1,674 |
| 3 | March 25, 2017 00:30 | March 25, 2017 05:45 | 5h 15m | 978 | 1,021 |
| 4 | March 6, 2017 13:45 | March 6, 2017 15:15 | 1h 30m | 582 | 439 |
| 5 | October 18, 2017 17:30 | October 18, 2017 17:45 | 15m | 581 | 145 |
| 6 | March 24, 2017 10:30 | March 24, 2017 10:45 | 15m | 304 | 76 |
| 7 | June 13, 2017 13:15 | June 13, 2017 13:30 | 15m | 63 | 16 |
| 8 | August 16, 2017 00:15 | August 16, 2017 00:30 | 15m | 47 | 12 |
| 9 | May 28, 2017 04:15 | May 28, 2017 05:15 | 1h | 13 | 13 |
| 10 | May 13, 2017 20:15 | May 13, 2017 20:30 | 15m | 11 | 3 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 6 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 1.8 hrs | 1.01 | 84 min | 0.92 |
| Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC | 2017 | 6.9 hrs | 4.78 | 1.6 hrs | 1.41 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/colorado/otero-county