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2016 Lincoln County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lincoln County, NM went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 20 New Mexico counties and 995th 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 Lincoln 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 | June 27, 2016 16:30 | June 27, 2016 17:15 | 45m | 7,622 | 1,908 |
| 2 | December 25, 2016 19:30 | December 26, 2016 03:45 | 8h 15m | 3,986 | 5,066 |
| 3 | June 25, 2016 23:30 | June 26, 2016 01:30 | 2h | 3,956 | 991 |
| 4 | October 3, 2016 23:45 | October 4, 2016 02:15 | 2h 30m | 3,932 | 1,049 |
| 5 | January 22, 2016 18:30 | January 22, 2016 19:00 | 30m | 1,724 | 862 |
| 6 | June 25, 2016 16:30 | June 25, 2016 22:00 | 5h 30m | 1,717 | 1,292 |
| 7 | July 21, 2016 23:45 | July 22, 2016 02:15 | 2h 30m | 1,298 | 2,000 |
| 8 | January 28, 2016 16:15 | January 28, 2016 18:30 | 2h 15m | 970 | 1,941 |
| 9 | March 2, 2016 21:45 | March 3, 2016 00:45 | 3h | 970 | 2,402 |
| 10 | June 7, 2016 18:45 | June 7, 2016 21:00 | 2h 15m | 438 | 549 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 32 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Lincoln 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 |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Socorro Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Otero County 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 ÷ 8,967 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county