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2017 Lincoln County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lincoln County, NM went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.2 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 23 New Mexico counties and 997th 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 Lincoln 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 | February 28, 2017 19:15 | March 1, 2017 02:15 | 7h | 14,165 | 23K |
| 2 | April 29, 2017 12:15 | April 29, 2017 19:00 | 6h 45m | 3,699 | 1,957 |
| 3 | September 27, 2017 16:45 | September 27, 2017 19:30 | 2h 45m | 2,301 | 577 |
| 4 | January 21, 2017 14:45 | January 21, 2017 18:00 | 3h 15m | 975 | 1,951 |
| 5 | July 27, 2017 08:45 | July 27, 2017 16:45 | 8h | 503 | 398 |
| 6 | February 9, 2017 14:45 | February 9, 2017 16:30 | 1h 45m | 433 | 326 |
| 7 | August 14, 2017 20:00 | August 15, 2017 01:45 | 5h 45m | 356 | 469 |
| 8 | May 2, 2017 20:30 | May 5, 2017 22:15 | 3d 1h | 277 | 634 |
| 9 | September 28, 2017 09:30 | September 28, 2017 12:00 | 2h 30m | 261 | 378 |
| 10 | July 2, 2017 21:00 | July 3, 2017 07:30 | 10h 30m | 260 | 1,076 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 26 reached 100+ customers, 3 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Lincoln 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 |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Socorro Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Otero County 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 ÷ 8,967 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county