County annual report · FIPS 35005
2016 Chaves County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Chaves County, NM went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 20 New Mexico counties and 1985th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chaves County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 1, 2016 17:00 | February 1, 2016 18:15 | 1h 15m | 1,916 | 1,914 |
| 2 | January 4, 2016 08:00 | January 4, 2016 09:00 | 1h | 1,886 | 1,415 |
| 3 | January 1, 2016 14:45 | January 1, 2016 15:45 | 1h | 1,315 | 1,315 |
| 4 | January 4, 2016 03:45 | January 4, 2016 07:15 | 3h 30m | 935 | 1,421 |
| 5 | January 3, 2016 06:30 | January 3, 2016 07:45 | 1h 15m | 706 | 883 |
| 6 | June 29, 2016 20:00 | June 29, 2016 22:45 | 2h 45m | 650 | 634 |
| 7 | July 31, 2016 11:30 | July 31, 2016 20:45 | 9h 15m | 650 | 1,618 |
| 8 | August 6, 2016 01:00 | August 6, 2016 03:00 | 2h | 626 | 780 |
| 9 | March 12, 2016 23:45 | March 13, 2016 06:00 | 6h 15m | 620 | 934 |
| 10 | March 13, 2016 07:00 | March 13, 2016 08:45 | 1h 45m | 619 | 322 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 47 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Chaves County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 | 2016 | 1.8 hrs | 1.12 | 1.8 hrs | 1.12 |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2016 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lea County Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Otero County Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Roosevelt County 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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 46,338 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. Chaves County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chaves County, NM annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/new-mexico/chaves-county