County annual report · FIPS 35017
2016 Grant County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Grant County, NM went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 98K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 20 New Mexico counties and 540th 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 Grant 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 | July 25, 2016 21:15 | July 26, 2016 01:00 | 3h 45m | 11,945 | 9,870 |
| 2 | July 31, 2016 13:00 | August 1, 2016 02:15 | 13h 15m | 3,915 | 6,486 |
| 3 | April 24, 2016 21:15 | April 25, 2016 01:45 | 4h 30m | 3,304 | 6,963 |
| 4 | January 25, 2016 23:00 | January 26, 2016 01:45 | 2h 45m | 3,298 | 3,306 |
| 5 | May 17, 2016 19:15 | May 18, 2016 02:30 | 7h 15m | 1,999 | 5,837 |
| 6 | October 28, 2016 13:00 | October 28, 2016 20:15 | 7h 15m | 1,984 | 5,972 |
| 7 | August 20, 2016 23:45 | August 21, 2016 03:15 | 3h 30m | 1,825 | 754 |
| 8 | August 8, 2016 21:45 | August 9, 2016 07:30 | 9h 45m | 1,563 | 1,707 |
| 9 | October 9, 2016 06:45 | October 9, 2016 19:45 | 13h | 1,545 | 3,495 |
| 10 | July 12, 2016 14:45 | July 12, 2016 15:45 | 1h | 1,429 | 696 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 49 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Grant 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 |
| Columbus Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duncan Valley 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 ÷ 15,355 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. Grant County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Grant 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/grant-county