County annual report · FIPS 35023
2015 Hidalgo County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Hidalgo County, NM went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 1,579 customer-hours (New Mexico average 1.6 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 21 New Mexico counties and 2010th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hidalgo County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 14, 2015 20:30 | June 14, 2015 21:30 | 1h | 126 | 33 |
| 2 | September 9, 2015 21:00 | September 9, 2015 23:15 | 2h 15m | 125 | 250 |
| 3 | August 14, 2015 15:45 | August 14, 2015 16:30 | 45m | 124 | 93 |
| 4 | September 21, 2015 22:15 | September 22, 2015 03:00 | 4h 45m | 86 | 324 |
| 5 | October 5, 2015 21:00 | October 6, 2015 08:00 | 11h | 74 | 286 |
| 6 | July 10, 2015 18:15 | July 10, 2015 20:00 | 1h 45m | 59 | 90 |
| 7 | October 16, 2015 17:45 | October 16, 2015 20:15 | 2h 30m | 31 | 41 |
| 8 | October 17, 2015 11:15 | October 17, 2015 18:15 | 7h | 31 | 207 |
| 9 | October 20, 2015 19:45 | October 20, 2015 20:45 | 1h | 31 | 20 |
| 10 | October 21, 2015 12:15 | October 21, 2015 16:15 | 4h | 31 | 110 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 3 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 Hidalgo County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 NM | 2015 | 75 min | 0.78 | 75 min | 0.78 |
| Columbus Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duncan Valley Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 New Mexico's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,651 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. Hidalgo County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hidalgo County, NM annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/new-mexico/hidalgo-county