Otero County, Colorado Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Otero County, Colorado had 1 major outage from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.29 times the US outage time per person and 0.86 times the Colorado rate. It ranks 26 of 44 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.1major outages per year

1 of 9years with a major outage

9 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Dechardest months

March and December made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 24, 2017, reached 3,420 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 8.8 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	10,790	7	0
2016	4,794	5	0
2017	31,539	6	1
2018	2,374	3	0
2019	19,348	9	0
2020	2,878	8	0
2021	37,034	15	0
2022	2,899	6	0
2023	2,316	6	0

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Mar 24, 2017	8.8	3,420	28,229
Oct 30, 2019	2.8	5,474	13,394
Dec 15, 2021	2.8	3,946	10,852
Nov 17, 2015	3.8	3,325	9,630
Aug 10, 2021	1.2	4,920	5,176

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.