County annual report · FIPS 35049
2016 Santa Fe County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Santa Fe County, NM went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 247K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 20 New Mexico counties and 956th 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 Santa Fe 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 12:00 | 8h | 48,797 | 130K |
| 2 | June 2, 2016 15:30 | June 2, 2016 15:45 | 15m | 7,193 | 1,798 |
| 3 | April 17, 2016 00:45 | April 17, 2016 03:45 | 3h | 6,335 | 16K |
| 4 | June 2, 2016 14:00 | June 2, 2016 14:15 | 15m | 6,082 | 1,521 |
| 5 | July 29, 2016 21:15 | July 30, 2016 18:15 | 21h | 4,572 | 19K |
| 6 | July 25, 2016 13:45 | July 26, 2016 06:00 | 16h 15m | 4,372 | 12K |
| 7 | August 13, 2016 22:15 | August 14, 2016 02:15 | 4h | 3,374 | 2,705 |
| 8 | April 18, 2016 19:45 | April 19, 2016 01:45 | 6h | 2,388 | 2,397 |
| 9 | August 4, 2016 16:00 | August 5, 2016 12:45 | 20h 45m | 2,297 | 8,659 |
| 10 | September 23, 2016 22:00 | September 24, 2016 00:15 | 2h 15m | 1,136 | 722 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 72 reached 100+ customers, 10 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Santa Fe 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 |
| Mora-San Miguel Elec Coop | 2016 | 7.7 hrs | - | 7.1 hrs | - |
| Central New Mexico 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 ÷ 78,870 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. Santa Fe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Santa Fe 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/santa-fe-county