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2018 Otero County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Otero County, CO went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 2,542 customer-hours (Colorado average 1.6 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 49 Colorado counties and 2461st of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Otero County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 15, 2018 16:15 | January 15, 2018 16:30 | 15m | 2,916 | 729 |
| 2 | March 13, 2018 10:15 | March 13, 2018 11:00 | 45m | 1,051 | 788 |
| 3 | April 18, 2018 00:45 | April 18, 2018 03:00 | 2h 15m | 381 | 857 |
| 4 | April 17, 2018 04:15 | April 17, 2018 04:30 | 15m | 30 | 8 |
| 5 | March 13, 2018 13:30 | March 13, 2018 22:45 | 9h 15m | 9 | 83 |
| 6 | February 23, 2018 16:30 | February 23, 2018 18:45 | 2h 15m | 7 | 16 |
| 7 | May 5, 2018 21:00 | May 5, 2018 21:15 | 15m | 7 | 2 |
| 8 | April 2, 2018 20:45 | April 2, 2018 22:00 | 1h 15m | 6 | 8 |
| 9 | June 28, 2018 01:30 | June 28, 2018 02:15 | 45m | 6 | 5 |
| 10 | December 4, 2018 23:15 | December 5, 2018 04:00 | 4h 45m | 5 | 24 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 3 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 | 1.6 hrs | 0.98 |
| Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC | 2018 | 73 min | 1.02 | 56 min | 0.87 |
| 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 88% of Colorado's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/colorado/otero-county