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2024 Otero County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Otero County, CO went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 7,174 customer-hours (Colorado average 4.7 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2500th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Otero County, 2024
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 3, 2024 10:15 | July 3, 2024 16:15 | 6h | 1,032 | 2,348 |
| 2 | July 15, 2024 02:00 | July 15, 2024 02:15 | 15m | 1,031 | 258 |
| 3 | September 16, 2024 22:15 | September 16, 2024 23:15 | 1h | 909 | 909 |
| 4 | September 9, 2024 01:00 | September 9, 2024 02:15 | 1h 15m | 714 | 893 |
| 5 | May 22, 2024 05:15 | May 22, 2024 08:45 | 3h 30m | 313 | 1,096 |
| 6 | August 4, 2024 22:45 | August 5, 2024 00:30 | 1h 45m | 143 | 235 |
| 7 | June 14, 2024 21:30 | June 15, 2024 02:30 | 5h | 108 | 229 |
| 8 | June 19, 2024 16:00 | June 19, 2024 18:00 | 2h | 108 | 134 |
| 9 | October 13, 2024 21:00 | October 13, 2024 21:30 | 30m | 105 | 46 |
| 10 | July 11, 2024 21:00 | July 11, 2024 22:15 | 1h 15m | 93 | 116 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 9 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 5.9 hrs | 1.68 | 2.6 hrs | 1.36 |
| Southeast Colorado Power Assn | 2024 | 11.2 hrs | - | 7.9 hrs | - |
| Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC | 2024 | 5.4 hrs | 2.39 | 1.7 hrs | 1.42 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/colorado/otero-county