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2018 Lincoln County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lincoln County, NM went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (New Mexico average 1.8 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 26 New Mexico counties and 1308th 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 Lincoln 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 | November 15, 2018 16:00 | November 15, 2018 16:15 | 15m | 6,329 | 1,582 |
| 2 | June 8, 2018 16:45 | June 8, 2018 18:00 | 1h 15m | 5,051 | 1,264 |
| 3 | August 27, 2018 01:00 | August 27, 2018 06:15 | 5h 15m | 2,565 | 1,081 |
| 4 | October 2, 2018 19:15 | October 2, 2018 19:30 | 15m | 2,314 | 579 |
| 5 | August 2, 2018 15:30 | August 2, 2018 16:00 | 30m | 2,283 | 1,141 |
| 6 | March 25, 2018 01:45 | March 25, 2018 06:45 | 5h | 1,885 | 4,146 |
| 7 | November 24, 2018 18:30 | November 24, 2018 19:30 | 1h | 1,751 | 439 |
| 8 | October 2, 2018 12:15 | October 2, 2018 14:45 | 2h 30m | 1,740 | 2,810 |
| 9 | July 14, 2018 20:30 | July 15, 2018 05:00 | 8h 30m | 1,092 | 835 |
| 10 | August 31, 2018 20:30 | August 31, 2018 20:45 | 15m | 1,082 | 271 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 31 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Lincoln 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Socorro Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Otero County 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 ÷ 8,967 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county