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2025 Otero County, CO Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Otero County, CO went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 1,710 customer-hours (Colorado average 4.6 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 52 Colorado counties and 2889th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with CO, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Colorado customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Otero County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 16, 2025 09:45 | November 16, 2025 15:45 | 6h | 255 | 672 |
| 2 | July 13, 2025 15:30 | July 13, 2025 17:45 | 2h 15m | 228 | 342 |
| 3 | July 18, 2025 23:00 | July 19, 2025 00:30 | 1h 30m | 123 | 161 |
| 4 | March 19, 2025 05:15 | March 19, 2025 20:30 | 15h 15m | 115 | 113 |
| 5 | January 5, 2025 21:45 | January 5, 2025 23:00 | 1h 15m | 43 | 54 |
| 6 | March 3, 2025 21:30 | March 3, 2025 22:15 | 45m | 37 | 10 |
| 7 | March 18, 2025 16:00 | March 18, 2025 17:15 | 1h 15m | 28 | 16 |
| 8 | March 14, 2025 17:15 | March 14, 2025 18:30 | 1h 15m | 20 | 21 |
| 9 | April 1, 2025 23:00 | April 2, 2025 00:45 | 1h 45m | 20 | 19 |
| 10 | March 18, 2025 20:15 | March 18, 2025 21:45 | 1h 30m | 19 | 18 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 4 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/colorado/otero-county