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2016 Sandoval County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Sandoval County, NM went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 181K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 20 New Mexico counties and 996th 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 Sandoval 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 8, 2016 04:00 | August 8, 2016 13:45 | 9h 45m | 23,233 | 75K |
| 2 | April 1, 2016 13:15 | April 1, 2016 14:30 | 1h 15m | 17,115 | 10K |
| 3 | September 12, 2016 19:45 | September 13, 2016 01:45 | 6h | 3,782 | 9,545 |
| 4 | September 22, 2016 22:00 | September 23, 2016 03:45 | 5h 45m | 3,394 | 5,730 |
| 5 | June 21, 2016 00:00 | June 21, 2016 01:00 | 1h | 3,101 | 818 |
| 6 | June 20, 2016 23:00 | June 20, 2016 23:15 | 15m | 2,981 | 745 |
| 7 | December 16, 2016 18:30 | December 16, 2016 21:30 | 3h | 1,999 | 2,654 |
| 8 | July 29, 2016 00:15 | July 29, 2016 05:30 | 5h 15m | 1,970 | 7,745 |
| 9 | March 14, 2016 16:15 | March 14, 2016 18:15 | 2h | 1,964 | 3,655 |
| 10 | June 20, 2016 00:45 | June 20, 2016 17:45 | 17h | 1,960 | 7,892 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 60 reached 100+ customers, 14 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Sandoval 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 |
| Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc | 2016 | 12.1 hrs | 4.86 | 5.6 hrs | 2.00 |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Continental Divide El 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 ÷ 60,725 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. Sandoval County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sandoval 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/sandoval-county