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2018 Doña Ana County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Doña Ana County, NM went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 157K customer-hours (New Mexico average 1.8 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 26 New Mexico counties and 2070th 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 Doña Ana 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 | July 30, 2018 22:00 | July 31, 2018 05:15 | 7h 15m | 7,431 | 27K |
| 2 | July 2, 2018 12:00 | July 2, 2018 13:30 | 1h 30m | 6,218 | 1,685 |
| 3 | June 3, 2018 23:15 | June 4, 2018 10:30 | 11h 15m | 5,746 | 16K |
| 4 | August 17, 2018 00:45 | August 17, 2018 19:30 | 18h 45m | 5,255 | 14K |
| 5 | July 10, 2018 18:45 | July 10, 2018 21:00 | 2h 15m | 5,083 | 4,105 |
| 6 | October 23, 2018 16:15 | October 23, 2018 20:30 | 4h 15m | 5,074 | 3,942 |
| 7 | May 12, 2018 16:30 | May 12, 2018 17:45 | 1h 15m | 4,733 | 3,634 |
| 8 | November 8, 2018 03:45 | November 8, 2018 04:30 | 45m | 4,063 | 3,047 |
| 9 | October 8, 2018 17:30 | October 8, 2018 19:45 | 2h 15m | 3,755 | 2,818 |
| 10 | May 7, 2018 17:00 | May 7, 2018 18:15 | 1h 15m | 3,718 | 4,648 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 79 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 Doña Ana 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 |
| El Paso Electric Co | 2018 | 67 min | 0.84 | 67 min | 0.84 |
| Columbus 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 ÷ 101,930 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. Doña Ana County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Doña Ana 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/dona-ana-county