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2016 Doña Ana County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Doña Ana County, NM went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 224K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 20 New Mexico counties and 1273rd 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 Doña Ana 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 | March 1, 2016 21:00 | March 1, 2016 23:00 | 2h | 11,331 | 2,877 |
| 2 | April 7, 2016 03:00 | April 7, 2016 05:15 | 2h 15m | 5,464 | 3,416 |
| 3 | January 21, 2016 14:30 | January 21, 2016 17:00 | 2h 30m | 5,397 | 8,072 |
| 4 | May 4, 2016 20:45 | May 4, 2016 22:30 | 1h 45m | 5,341 | 4,346 |
| 5 | September 22, 2016 17:00 | September 22, 2016 19:45 | 2h 45m | 5,287 | 15K |
| 6 | December 17, 2016 14:45 | December 18, 2016 01:15 | 10h 30m | 5,027 | 23K |
| 7 | June 15, 2016 15:00 | June 15, 2016 18:45 | 3h 45m | 4,842 | 18K |
| 8 | June 21, 2016 11:15 | June 21, 2016 17:30 | 6h 15m | 4,183 | 1,276 |
| 9 | August 1, 2016 23:45 | August 2, 2016 10:15 | 10h 30m | 4,064 | 9,243 |
| 10 | May 13, 2016 23:00 | May 14, 2016 01:00 | 2h | 3,912 | 5,930 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 93 reached 100+ customers, 29 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Doña Ana 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Co of NM | 2016 | 1.8 hrs | 1.26 | 84 min | 0.92 |
| El Paso Electric Co | 2016 | 67 min | 0.91 | 61 min | 0.86 |
| Columbus 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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 101,930 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. Doña Ana County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Doña Ana 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/dona-ana-county