County annual report · FIPS 35025
2016 Lea County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lea County, NM went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 52K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 20 New Mexico counties and 1719th 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 Lea 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 | August 29, 2016 04:45 | August 29, 2016 14:30 | 9h 45m | 2,677 | 6,259 |
| 2 | March 1, 2016 15:30 | March 1, 2016 15:45 | 15m | 2,351 | 588 |
| 3 | August 9, 2016 04:00 | August 10, 2016 14:30 | 1d 10h | 1,611 | 11K |
| 4 | June 10, 2016 01:45 | June 10, 2016 18:00 | 16h 15m | 1,413 | 4,997 |
| 5 | April 18, 2016 16:15 | April 18, 2016 21:15 | 5h | 1,335 | 339 |
| 6 | July 20, 2016 02:30 | July 20, 2016 03:30 | 1h | 1,100 | 1,100 |
| 7 | August 8, 2016 20:15 | August 9, 2016 01:45 | 5h 30m | 988 | 845 |
| 8 | August 29, 2016 15:30 | August 30, 2016 07:15 | 15h 45m | 639 | 817 |
| 9 | August 10, 2016 16:00 | August 11, 2016 01:30 | 9h 30m | 592 | 500 |
| 10 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | June 24, 2016 11:00 | 1d | 442 | 2,114 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 51 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Lea 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 |
| 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 ÷ 46,964 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. Lea County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lea 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/lea-county