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2016 Luna County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Luna County, NM went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 20 New Mexico counties and 1518th 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 Luna 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 | January 11, 2016 02:00 | January 11, 2016 07:15 | 5h 15m | 7,371 | 13K |
| 2 | August 2, 2016 03:15 | August 2, 2016 07:15 | 4h | 1,387 | 782 |
| 3 | June 30, 2016 13:30 | June 30, 2016 14:00 | 30m | 1,351 | 343 |
| 4 | July 5, 2016 13:30 | July 5, 2016 14:45 | 1h 15m | 1,351 | 353 |
| 5 | May 6, 2016 21:15 | May 7, 2016 00:00 | 2h 45m | 907 | 1,587 |
| 6 | November 16, 2016 20:30 | November 16, 2016 21:45 | 1h 15m | 901 | 1,126 |
| 7 | July 10, 2016 17:15 | July 11, 2016 02:45 | 9h 30m | 579 | 1,525 |
| 8 | January 6, 2016 09:45 | January 6, 2016 10:15 | 30m | 495 | 248 |
| 9 | March 12, 2016 23:30 | March 13, 2016 00:00 | 30m | 494 | 124 |
| 10 | June 6, 2016 01:30 | June 6, 2016 02:30 | 1h | 438 | 318 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 25 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Luna 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 |
| El Paso Electric Co | 2016 | 67 min | 0.91 | 61 min | 0.86 |
| Columbus Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sierra 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 ÷ 16,018 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. Luna County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Luna 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/luna-county