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2022 Otero County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Otero County, CO went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 5,897 customer-hours (Colorado average 2.6 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2541st of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Otero County, 2022
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 21, 2022 19:30 | March 21, 2022 20:45 | 1h 15m | 965 | 330 |
| 2 | July 7, 2022 02:45 | July 7, 2022 08:15 | 5h 30m | 756 | 1,174 |
| 3 | May 11, 2022 18:15 | May 11, 2022 18:30 | 15m | 702 | 176 |
| 4 | August 31, 2022 15:15 | August 31, 2022 18:15 | 3h | 590 | 739 |
| 5 | September 1, 2022 03:15 | September 1, 2022 04:45 | 1h 30m | 458 | 687 |
| 6 | August 7, 2022 21:00 | August 7, 2022 22:00 | 1h | 235 | 85 |
| 7 | January 6, 2022 01:45 | January 6, 2022 03:00 | 1h 15m | 174 | 218 |
| 8 | July 5, 2022 14:00 | July 5, 2022 14:30 | 30m | 119 | 60 |
| 9 | July 5, 2022 18:45 | July 5, 2022 19:15 | 30m | 119 | 59 |
| 10 | August 6, 2022 23:15 | August 7, 2022 00:00 | 45m | 90 | 40 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 9 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 2.9 hrs | 1.17 | 1.9 hrs | 1.04 |
| Southeast Colorado Power Assn | 2022 | 16.4 hrs | - | 15.2 hrs | - |
| Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC | 2022 | 3.8 hrs | 1.70 | 87 min | 1.31 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/colorado/otero-county