County annual report · FIPS 35059
2016 Union County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Union County, NM went without power for an average of 8.0 hours, a total of 3,354 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 20 New Mexico counties and 440th 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 Union 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 | April 16, 2016 09:15 | April 16, 2016 11:00 | 1h 45m | 1,469 | 1,106 |
| 2 | July 29, 2016 15:30 | July 29, 2016 15:45 | 15m | 941 | 235 |
| 3 | July 29, 2016 07:45 | July 29, 2016 10:45 | 3h | 526 | 1,054 |
| 4 | July 17, 2016 00:45 | July 17, 2016 04:30 | 3h 45m | 420 | 850 |
| 5 | July 5, 2016 21:45 | July 5, 2016 22:15 | 30m | 9 | 3 |
| 6 | August 8, 2016 04:45 | August 8, 2016 12:00 | 7h 15m | 6 | 42 |
| 7 | June 12, 2016 03:45 | June 12, 2016 12:15 | 8h 30m | 5 | 10 |
| 8 | August 7, 2016 02:15 | August 7, 2016 08:45 | 6h 30m | 5 | 24 |
| 9 | January 20, 2016 17:15 | January 20, 2016 17:45 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | January 21, 2016 21:45 | January 21, 2016 22:15 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 4 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Union 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 |
| Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (OK) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southwestern Electric Coop Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Springer 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 ÷ 418 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county