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2016 Otero County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Otero County, NM went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 55K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 20 New Mexico counties and 1000th 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 Otero 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 28, 2016 23:00 | June 29, 2016 01:30 | 2h 30m | 3,958 | 6,925 |
| 2 | June 25, 2016 17:45 | June 25, 2016 23:00 | 5h 15m | 3,955 | 7,588 |
| 3 | January 6, 2016 17:00 | January 6, 2016 17:45 | 45m | 3,150 | 2,363 |
| 4 | September 10, 2016 10:30 | September 10, 2016 17:45 | 7h 15m | 2,942 | 5,293 |
| 5 | April 1, 2016 10:30 | April 1, 2016 11:30 | 1h | 2,001 | 2,001 |
| 6 | April 19, 2016 22:00 | April 19, 2016 23:15 | 1h 15m | 1,928 | 521 |
| 7 | April 9, 2016 04:15 | April 9, 2016 08:45 | 4h 30m | 1,818 | 6,362 |
| 8 | August 7, 2016 11:15 | August 7, 2016 13:15 | 2h | 1,605 | 2,810 |
| 9 | February 18, 2016 13:30 | February 18, 2016 17:00 | 3h 30m | 910 | 3,182 |
| 10 | July 31, 2016 21:45 | August 1, 2016 03:15 | 5h 30m | 905 | 2,263 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 42 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Otero 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 |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2016 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 |
| Rio Grande 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 ÷ 18,452 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. Otero County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Otero 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/otero-county