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2018 Curry County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Curry County, NM went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (New Mexico average 1.8 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 26 New Mexico counties and 2469th 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 Curry 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 | April 12, 2018 20:00 | April 13, 2018 02:30 | 6h 30m | 4,994 | 2,311 |
| 2 | May 4, 2018 14:30 | May 4, 2018 20:30 | 6h | 3,372 | 856 |
| 3 | April 19, 2018 04:45 | April 19, 2018 05:00 | 15m | 1,755 | 439 |
| 4 | May 21, 2018 08:15 | May 21, 2018 14:15 | 6h | 1,229 | 2,198 |
| 5 | January 11, 2018 16:45 | January 11, 2018 18:45 | 2h | 780 | 203 |
| 6 | September 1, 2018 21:15 | September 2, 2018 11:15 | 14h | 721 | 1,244 |
| 7 | April 20, 2018 20:15 | April 21, 2018 00:30 | 4h 15m | 568 | 1,715 |
| 8 | August 19, 2018 04:30 | August 19, 2018 11:15 | 6h 45m | 523 | 1,957 |
| 9 | August 8, 2018 08:45 | August 8, 2018 14:00 | 5h 15m | 382 | 727 |
| 10 | September 12, 2018 01:45 | September 12, 2018 03:00 | 1h 15m | 381 | 476 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 27 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Curry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Public Service Co | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 1.08 | 1.9 hrs | 1.06 |
| Public Service Co of NM | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 0.98 | 1.8 hrs | 0.98 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Roosevelt County Elec 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 ÷ 33,327 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. Curry County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Curry 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/curry-county