County annual report · FIPS 35037
2017 Quay County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Quay County, NM went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 300 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.2 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 23 New Mexico counties and 2609th 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 Quay 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 | September 24, 2017 20:15 | September 24, 2017 20:30 | 15m | 75 | 19 |
| 2 | May 19, 2017 20:45 | May 19, 2017 23:00 | 2h 15m | 36 | 10 |
| 3 | March 29, 2017 17:30 | March 29, 2017 19:00 | 1h 30m | 34 | 34 |
| 4 | October 18, 2017 21:30 | October 18, 2017 22:30 | 1h | 33 | 25 |
| 5 | October 19, 2017 16:45 | October 19, 2017 18:30 | 1h 45m | 32 | 56 |
| 6 | April 19, 2017 21:00 | April 19, 2017 23:30 | 2h 30m | 21 | 33 |
| 7 | March 29, 2017 00:00 | March 29, 2017 01:15 | 1h 15m | 16 | 14 |
| 8 | December 7, 2017 11:45 | December 7, 2017 13:00 | 1h 15m | 5 | 4 |
| 9 | September 25, 2017 14:00 | September 25, 2017 15:15 | 1h 15m | 4 | 5 |
| 10 | September 27, 2017 15:00 | September 27, 2017 15:15 | 15m | 4 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 0 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Quay 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 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southwestern 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 ÷ 4,683 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. Quay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Quay 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/quay-county