County annual report · FIPS 35015
2018 Eddy County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Eddy County, NM went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (New Mexico average 1.8 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 26 New Mexico counties and 1633rd 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 Eddy 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 | February 25, 2018 21:45 | February 25, 2018 22:00 | 15m | 4,914 | 1,229 |
| 2 | February 26, 2018 08:15 | February 26, 2018 09:15 | 1h | 4,914 | 4,914 |
| 3 | October 2, 2018 14:15 | October 2, 2018 15:00 | 45m | 3,923 | 2,395 |
| 4 | September 27, 2018 10:30 | September 27, 2018 11:30 | 1h | 3,922 | 3,093 |
| 5 | January 16, 2018 05:00 | January 16, 2018 16:45 | 11h 45m | 3,756 | 12K |
| 6 | August 27, 2018 17:45 | August 28, 2018 09:15 | 15h 30m | 1,268 | 3,876 |
| 7 | June 4, 2018 01:00 | June 6, 2018 01:15 | 2d | 1,129 | 2,958 |
| 8 | October 18, 2018 14:15 | October 19, 2018 00:45 | 10h 30m | 933 | 1,032 |
| 9 | October 17, 2018 17:15 | October 17, 2018 20:45 | 3h 30m | 918 | 747 |
| 10 | September 26, 2018 14:00 | September 26, 2018 19:15 | 5h 15m | 909 | 1,839 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 68 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Eddy 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 |
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 6.0 hrs | - | 3.4 hrs | - |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.8 hrs | 2.30 | 2.3 hrs | 1.19 |
| Lea County Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 28,539 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. Eddy County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Eddy 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/eddy-county