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2020 Otero County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Otero County, CO went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 4,214 customer-hours (Colorado average 2.2 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 57 Colorado counties and 2655th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Otero County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 13, 2020 22:30 | June 14, 2020 00:00 | 1h 30m | 1,020 | 989 |
| 2 | August 17, 2020 00:45 | August 17, 2020 03:00 | 2h 15m | 607 | 941 |
| 3 | August 17, 2020 03:45 | August 17, 2020 04:15 | 30m | 607 | 182 |
| 4 | September 10, 2020 07:45 | September 10, 2020 09:00 | 1h 15m | 607 | 607 |
| 5 | September 10, 2020 23:45 | September 11, 2020 00:00 | 15m | 607 | 152 |
| 6 | April 2, 2020 17:15 | April 2, 2020 17:30 | 15m | 525 | 131 |
| 7 | March 26, 2020 20:45 | March 26, 2020 21:45 | 1h | 144 | 144 |
| 8 | December 24, 2020 02:00 | December 24, 2020 04:30 | 2h 30m | 126 | 315 |
| 9 | September 20, 2020 00:15 | September 20, 2020 01:00 | 45m | 68 | 37 |
| 10 | September 9, 2020 10:45 | September 10, 2020 00:00 | 13h 15m | 59 | 197 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 8 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 2.3 hrs | 1.03 | 83 min | 0.85 |
| Southeast Colorado Power Assn | 2020 | 5.7 hrs | - | 5.0 hrs | - |
| Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC | 2020 | 74 min | 1.87 | 65 min | 1.72 |
| 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 84% of Colorado's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/colorado/otero-county