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2019 Otero County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Otero County, CO went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Colorado average 3.3 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 55 Colorado counties and 913th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Otero County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 30, 2019 00:15 | October 30, 2019 04:30 | 4h 15m | 5,476 | 19K |
| 2 | July 2, 2019 12:00 | July 2, 2019 13:30 | 1h 30m | 2,036 | 3,054 |
| 3 | June 23, 2019 00:15 | June 23, 2019 03:45 | 3h 30m | 857 | 1,940 |
| 4 | August 28, 2019 17:15 | August 28, 2019 17:45 | 30m | 597 | 299 |
| 5 | May 31, 2019 21:00 | May 31, 2019 21:30 | 30m | 593 | 297 |
| 6 | May 31, 2019 23:00 | May 31, 2019 23:15 | 15m | 593 | 148 |
| 7 | March 13, 2019 23:00 | March 15, 2019 14:45 | 1d 15h | 222 | 136 |
| 8 | May 20, 2019 04:30 | May 20, 2019 05:30 | 1h | 221 | 166 |
| 9 | June 22, 2019 03:15 | June 22, 2019 03:30 | 15m | 180 | 45 |
| 10 | May 21, 2019 03:15 | May 21, 2019 08:00 | 4h 45m | 172 | 117 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 10 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 2019, 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 83% of Colorado's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/colorado/otero-county