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2023 Otero County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Otero County, CO went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 3,209 customer-hours (Colorado average 2.1 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2748th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Otero County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 10, 2023 21:45 | July 10, 2023 22:00 | 15m | 2,042 | 511 |
| 2 | July 6, 2023 03:45 | July 6, 2023 05:00 | 1h 15m | 706 | 883 |
| 3 | March 22, 2023 20:15 | March 22, 2023 23:15 | 3h | 323 | 184 |
| 4 | May 12, 2023 03:45 | May 12, 2023 04:45 | 1h | 314 | 314 |
| 5 | May 22, 2023 21:15 | May 22, 2023 22:00 | 45m | 225 | 169 |
| 6 | March 31, 2023 22:15 | March 31, 2023 23:30 | 1h 15m | 223 | 279 |
| 7 | February 14, 2023 17:30 | February 14, 2023 18:30 | 1h | 109 | 109 |
| 8 | March 5, 2023 14:30 | March 5, 2023 15:45 | 1h 15m | 74 | 93 |
| 9 | April 3, 2023 21:45 | April 3, 2023 23:15 | 1h 30m | 51 | 68 |
| 10 | May 11, 2023 15:00 | May 11, 2023 15:45 | 45m | 50 | 38 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 7 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 | 1.7 hrs | 0.98 |
| Southeast Colorado Power Assn | 2023 | 12.5 hrs | - | 12.0 hrs | - |
| Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | 1.55 | 87 min | 1.30 |
| 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 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/colorado/otero-county