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2017 Union County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Union County, NM went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 853 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.2 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 23 New Mexico counties and 1614th 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 Union 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 | July 31, 2017 15:00 | July 31, 2017 16:45 | 1h 45m | 340 | 342 |
| 2 | March 28, 2017 22:45 | March 29, 2017 02:30 | 3h 45m | 180 | 361 |
| 3 | December 10, 2017 11:15 | December 10, 2017 12:45 | 1h 30m | 178 | 55 |
| 4 | March 24, 2017 14:45 | March 24, 2017 16:15 | 1h 30m | 36 | 43 |
| 5 | November 18, 2017 09:00 | November 18, 2017 13:15 | 4h 15m | 14 | 20 |
| 6 | October 31, 2017 16:15 | October 31, 2017 18:45 | 2h 30m | 3 | 5 |
| 7 | January 5, 2017 02:45 | January 5, 2017 04:45 | 2h | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | February 3, 2017 14:15 | February 3, 2017 14:45 | 30m | 2 | 1 |
| 9 | September 27, 2017 14:15 | September 27, 2017 15:30 | 1h 15m | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | February 7, 2017 20:30 | February 7, 2017 20:45 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 3 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 Union 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 |
| Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (OK) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southwestern Electric Coop Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Springer 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 ÷ 418 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county