County annual report · FIPS 35023
2017 Hidalgo County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Hidalgo County, NM went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 5,127 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.2 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 23 New Mexico counties and 1658th 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 Hidalgo 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 | May 7, 2017 14:45 | May 7, 2017 15:45 | 1h | 1,653 | 1,653 |
| 2 | April 30, 2017 14:45 | April 30, 2017 16:00 | 1h 15m | 1,651 | 2,064 |
| 3 | May 8, 2017 13:45 | May 8, 2017 14:15 | 30m | 1,136 | 568 |
| 4 | May 29, 2017 20:00 | May 29, 2017 21:15 | 1h 15m | 227 | 227 |
| 5 | July 21, 2017 20:15 | July 21, 2017 21:45 | 1h 30m | 84 | 126 |
| 6 | July 22, 2017 16:15 | July 22, 2017 18:15 | 2h | 84 | 147 |
| 7 | September 13, 2017 11:30 | September 13, 2017 14:00 | 2h 30m | 77 | 136 |
| 8 | December 13, 2017 20:45 | December 13, 2017 21:30 | 45m | 55 | 31 |
| 9 | July 7, 2017 17:30 | July 7, 2017 17:45 | 15m | 25 | 6 |
| 10 | May 28, 2017 02:00 | May 28, 2017 04:45 | 2h 45m | 13 | 34 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 4 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Hidalgo 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 |
| Columbus Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duncan Valley Elec 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 ÷ 2,651 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. Hidalgo County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hidalgo 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/hidalgo-county