County annual report · FIPS 35037
2016 Quay County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Quay County, NM went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 1,386 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 20 New Mexico counties and 2122nd 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 Quay 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 | May 16, 2016 09:30 | May 16, 2016 13:15 | 3h 45m | 215 | 537 |
| 2 | January 16, 2016 00:30 | January 16, 2016 01:15 | 45m | 108 | 81 |
| 3 | January 21, 2016 01:45 | January 21, 2016 02:45 | 1h | 52 | 39 |
| 4 | June 11, 2016 22:30 | June 12, 2016 00:15 | 1h 45m | 52 | 40 |
| 5 | May 12, 2016 03:00 | May 12, 2016 05:30 | 2h 30m | 45 | 101 |
| 6 | August 7, 2016 04:00 | August 7, 2016 06:15 | 2h 15m | 38 | 39 |
| 7 | July 16, 2016 01:00 | July 16, 2016 03:00 | 2h | 37 | 60 |
| 8 | May 12, 2016 16:45 | May 12, 2016 17:30 | 45m | 36 | 27 |
| 9 | May 15, 2016 17:30 | May 16, 2016 00:30 | 7h | 36 | 62 |
| 10 | May 17, 2016 01:30 | May 17, 2016 08:45 | 7h 15m | 30 | 201 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 2 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Quay 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 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southwestern 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 ÷ 4,683 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. Quay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Quay 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/quay-county