County annual report · FIPS 35059
2015 Union County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Union County, NM went without power for an average of 13.0 hours, a total of 5,454 customer-hours (New Mexico average 1.6 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 21 New Mexico counties and 198th 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 Union 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 | November 17, 2015 12:15 | November 17, 2015 22:30 | 10h 15m | 1,466 | 3,716 |
| 2 | November 30, 2015 06:15 | November 30, 2015 07:45 | 1h 30m | 1,289 | 1,613 |
| 3 | November 27, 2015 15:45 | November 27, 2015 18:00 | 2h 15m | 178 | 61 |
| 4 | July 19, 2015 22:15 | July 20, 2015 00:45 | 2h 30m | 13 | 25 |
| 5 | November 30, 2015 12:00 | November 30, 2015 13:00 | 1h | 8 | 7 |
| 6 | September 14, 2015 01:45 | September 14, 2015 04:30 | 2h 45m | 7 | 19 |
| 7 | June 19, 2015 00:30 | June 19, 2015 01:45 | 1h 15m | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | May 30, 2015 08:45 | May 30, 2015 10:15 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | June 17, 2015 20:15 | June 17, 2015 20:45 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | June 19, 2015 20:00 | June 19, 2015 20:30 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 3 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 Union 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 |
| Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (OK) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southwestern Electric Coop Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Springer Electric 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 ÷ 418 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county