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2017 Doña Ana County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Doña Ana County, NM went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 268K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.2 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 23 New Mexico counties and 1442nd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Doña Ana County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 18, 2017 03:30 | January 18, 2017 07:00 | 3h 30m | 27,917 | 29K |
| 2 | January 16, 2017 23:30 | January 17, 2017 02:30 | 3h | 27,913 | 26K |
| 3 | July 18, 2017 06:15 | July 19, 2017 02:15 | 20h | 15,237 | 26K |
| 4 | December 24, 2017 04:30 | December 24, 2017 07:30 | 3h | 10,767 | 28K |
| 5 | September 2, 2017 00:00 | September 2, 2017 02:45 | 2h 45m | 7,642 | 13K |
| 6 | September 27, 2017 19:15 | September 27, 2017 22:30 | 3h 15m | 7,593 | 11K |
| 7 | January 31, 2017 11:45 | January 31, 2017 13:45 | 2h | 4,985 | 7,619 |
| 8 | July 30, 2017 03:45 | July 30, 2017 19:15 | 15h 30m | 4,431 | 3,176 |
| 9 | May 20, 2017 03:15 | May 20, 2017 04:45 | 1h 30m | 4,146 | 6,217 |
| 10 | June 20, 2017 22:00 | June 21, 2017 04:00 | 6h | 4,138 | 6,211 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 86 reached 100+ customers, 22 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Doña Ana County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 1.16 | 87 min | 0.88 |
| El Paso Electric Co | 2017 | 2.0 hrs | 1.32 | 2.0 hrs | 1.32 |
| Columbus 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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 101,930 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. Doña Ana County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Doña Ana County, NM annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/new-mexico/dona-ana-county