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2018 Catron County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Catron County, NM went without power for an average of 16.6 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (New Mexico average 1.8 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 26 New Mexico counties and 338th of 2,798 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 Catron 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 | October 6, 2018 08:00 | October 6, 2018 12:00 | 4h | 1,439 | 5,397 |
| 2 | December 28, 2018 21:45 | December 29, 2018 03:00 | 5h 15m | 1,235 | 6,484 |
| 3 | June 25, 2018 19:00 | June 25, 2018 20:45 | 1h 45m | 1,231 | 2,154 |
| 4 | October 8, 2018 14:15 | October 8, 2018 16:15 | 2h | 698 | 826 |
| 5 | June 21, 2018 22:15 | June 24, 2018 05:00 | 2d 6h | 437 | 24K |
| 6 | July 23, 2018 01:45 | July 23, 2018 06:30 | 4h 45m | 389 | 1,184 |
| 7 | September 1, 2018 11:30 | September 1, 2018 20:30 | 9h | 84 | 547 |
| 8 | July 12, 2018 20:15 | July 12, 2018 21:30 | 1h 15m | 56 | 15 |
| 9 | September 1, 2018 21:45 | September 1, 2018 22:45 | 1h | 48 | 25 |
| 10 | September 2, 2018 13:00 | September 2, 2018 14:45 | 1h 45m | 36 | 11 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 6 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 Catron 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 |
| Socorro Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Navopache Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sierra 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 74% of New Mexico's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,458 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. Catron County has data for 2015–2016, 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Catron 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/catron-county