County annual report · FIPS 35025
2017 Lea County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lea County, NM went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 51K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.2 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 23 New Mexico counties and 2010th 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 Lea 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 | August 24, 2017 17:00 | August 25, 2017 03:00 | 10h | 3,712 | 1,199 |
| 2 | October 21, 2017 18:00 | October 21, 2017 20:30 | 2h 30m | 1,613 | 1,879 |
| 3 | October 18, 2017 15:45 | October 18, 2017 17:00 | 1h 15m | 1,011 | 254 |
| 4 | November 13, 2017 06:00 | November 13, 2017 12:00 | 6h | 935 | 632 |
| 5 | September 8, 2017 13:15 | September 8, 2017 15:00 | 1h 45m | 922 | 466 |
| 6 | September 16, 2017 13:00 | September 16, 2017 14:30 | 1h 30m | 920 | 883 |
| 7 | April 7, 2017 15:15 | April 7, 2017 19:45 | 4h 30m | 846 | 272 |
| 8 | April 10, 2017 19:15 | April 10, 2017 20:45 | 1h 30m | 845 | 486 |
| 9 | April 2, 2017 14:00 | April 3, 2017 03:00 | 13h | 705 | 2,903 |
| 10 | September 23, 2017 15:45 | September 23, 2017 19:15 | 3h 30m | 626 | 2,033 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 66 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 Lea 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Public Service Co | 2017 | 3.9 hrs | 1.25 | 1.7 hrs | 1.05 |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2017 | 86 min | 1.09 | 86 min | 1.09 |
| Lea County Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 46,964 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. Lea County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lea 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/lea-county