County annual report · FIPS 35015
2016 Eddy County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Eddy County, NM went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 61K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 20 New Mexico counties and 1296th 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 Eddy 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 10:15 | March 1, 2016 12:00 | 1h 45m | 5,772 | 5,054 |
| 2 | May 18, 2016 03:00 | May 18, 2016 08:30 | 5h 30m | 5,109 | 8,884 |
| 3 | September 12, 2016 22:00 | September 12, 2016 22:15 | 15m | 3,257 | 814 |
| 4 | June 21, 2016 05:45 | June 21, 2016 06:00 | 15m | 2,548 | 637 |
| 5 | January 16, 2016 00:45 | January 16, 2016 03:15 | 2h 30m | 1,835 | 2,232 |
| 6 | August 9, 2016 14:30 | August 9, 2016 15:45 | 1h 15m | 1,711 | 2,139 |
| 7 | July 4, 2016 21:15 | July 5, 2016 12:00 | 14h 45m | 1,585 | 2,947 |
| 8 | February 5, 2016 13:15 | February 5, 2016 19:15 | 6h | 1,306 | 3,279 |
| 9 | January 26, 2016 23:30 | January 27, 2016 05:00 | 5h 30m | 1,088 | 2,788 |
| 10 | June 8, 2016 15:00 | June 8, 2016 18:30 | 3h 30m | 941 | 852 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 55 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Eddy 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 |
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 28,539 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. Eddy County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Eddy 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/eddy-county