County annual report · FIPS 35061
2016 Valencia County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Valencia County, NM went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 160K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 20 New Mexico counties and 716th 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 Valencia 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 07:45 | 3h 45m | 20,796 | 39K |
| 2 | May 28, 2016 02:30 | May 28, 2016 23:15 | 20h 45m | 10,430 | 30K |
| 3 | September 12, 2016 19:45 | September 12, 2016 23:00 | 3h 15m | 5,479 | 15K |
| 4 | August 27, 2016 19:45 | August 28, 2016 16:15 | 20h 30m | 3,289 | 22K |
| 5 | January 4, 2016 17:00 | January 4, 2016 17:45 | 45m | 2,864 | 716 |
| 6 | August 19, 2016 19:15 | August 20, 2016 09:45 | 14h 30m | 1,959 | 4,088 |
| 7 | August 10, 2016 01:15 | August 10, 2016 11:15 | 10h | 1,936 | 5,250 |
| 8 | June 7, 2016 01:30 | June 7, 2016 07:15 | 5h 45m | 1,930 | 2,424 |
| 9 | July 2, 2016 07:45 | July 2, 2016 16:15 | 8h 30m | 1,384 | 2,162 |
| 10 | February 12, 2016 01:15 | February 12, 2016 07:30 | 6h 15m | 1,246 | 2,338 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 53 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Valencia 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 |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Socorro Electric 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 ÷ 35,686 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. Valencia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Valencia 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/valencia-county