County annual report · FIPS 35023
2016 Hidalgo County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Hidalgo County, NM went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 4,123 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 20 New Mexico counties and 1515th 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 Hidalgo 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 | September 21, 2016 09:15 | September 21, 2016 11:00 | 1h 45m | 1,656 | 2,485 |
| 2 | August 4, 2016 21:45 | August 5, 2016 00:00 | 2h 15m | 226 | 251 |
| 3 | September 1, 2016 22:15 | September 1, 2016 23:00 | 45m | 226 | 170 |
| 4 | September 28, 2016 13:30 | September 28, 2016 15:45 | 2h 15m | 120 | 270 |
| 5 | December 22, 2016 17:45 | December 22, 2016 22:15 | 4h 30m | 85 | 383 |
| 6 | September 30, 2016 02:45 | September 30, 2016 04:00 | 1h 15m | 59 | 45 |
| 7 | August 7, 2016 20:15 | August 8, 2016 01:30 | 5h 15m | 43 | 182 |
| 8 | June 14, 2016 20:15 | June 14, 2016 22:15 | 2h | 32 | 64 |
| 9 | September 13, 2016 00:45 | September 13, 2016 03:45 | 3h | 21 | 57 |
| 10 | October 20, 2016 09:45 | October 20, 2016 16:15 | 6h 30m | 11 | 64 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 4 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Hidalgo 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 ÷ 2,651 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. Hidalgo County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hidalgo 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/hidalgo-county