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2018 Bernalillo County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Bernalillo County, NM went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 612K customer-hours (New Mexico average 1.8 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 26 New Mexico counties and 2004th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bernalillo County, 2018
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 13, 2018 13:45 | August 16, 2018 12:00 | 2d 22h | 29,918 | 79K |
| 2 | May 15, 2018 14:15 | May 16, 2018 11:45 | 21h 30m | 18,349 | 23K |
| 3 | May 3, 2018 03:30 | May 3, 2018 05:00 | 1h 30m | 18,225 | 10K |
| 4 | July 22, 2018 15:00 | July 27, 2018 08:00 | 4d 17h | 13,061 | 86K |
| 5 | March 30, 2018 13:30 | March 31, 2018 07:15 | 17h 45m | 11,145 | 22K |
| 6 | April 19, 2018 17:15 | April 21, 2018 03:00 | 1d 9h | 6,657 | 11K |
| 7 | July 28, 2018 00:00 | July 30, 2018 19:30 | 2d 19h | 6,223 | 28K |
| 8 | June 6, 2018 12:15 | June 9, 2018 10:00 | 2d 21h | 5,574 | 8,188 |
| 9 | May 19, 2018 15:45 | May 20, 2018 19:45 | 1d 4h | 5,430 | 7,440 |
| 10 | December 27, 2018 22:00 | December 31, 2018 00:15 | 3d 2h | 5,023 | 5,812 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 156 reached 100+ customers, 75 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Bernalillo County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 0.98 | 1.8 hrs | 0.98 |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Continental Divide El 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 74% of New Mexico's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 364,403 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. Bernalillo County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bernalillo County, NM annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/new-mexico/bernalillo-county