County annual report · FIPS 35025
2015 Lea County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Lea County, NM went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 83K customer-hours (New Mexico average 1.6 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 21 New Mexico counties and 1340th 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 Lea 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 | December 17, 2015 22:00 | December 18, 2015 02:45 | 4h 45m | 2,344 | 4,421 |
| 2 | July 23, 2015 19:15 | July 24, 2015 15:45 | 20h 30m | 1,796 | 15K |
| 3 | August 9, 2015 05:00 | August 10, 2015 05:45 | 1d | 1,716 | 6,651 |
| 4 | October 8, 2015 18:15 | October 9, 2015 05:30 | 11h 15m | 1,495 | 4,984 |
| 5 | October 9, 2015 06:15 | October 9, 2015 08:45 | 2h 30m | 1,493 | 3,733 |
| 6 | May 30, 2015 03:45 | May 30, 2015 19:00 | 15h 15m | 1,108 | 2,594 |
| 7 | July 24, 2015 18:00 | July 25, 2015 18:00 | 1d | 1,079 | 1,984 |
| 8 | December 26, 2015 16:45 | December 28, 2015 02:30 | 1d 9h | 934 | 2,909 |
| 9 | September 23, 2015 17:15 | September 24, 2015 14:30 | 21h 15m | 924 | 3,127 |
| 10 | August 11, 2015 14:00 | August 11, 2015 16:15 | 2h 15m | 847 | 1,483 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 65 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Lea 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Public Service Co | 2015 | 3.4 hrs | 1.53 | 2.1 hrs | 1.25 |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2015 | 51 min | 0.48 | 51 min | 0.48 |
| Lea County Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 46,964 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. Lea County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lea 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/lea-county