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2018 Otero County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Otero County, NM went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 28K customer-hours (New Mexico average 1.8 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 26 New Mexico counties and 2077th 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 Otero 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 | June 8, 2018 17:15 | June 8, 2018 17:45 | 30m | 6,321 | 2,562 |
| 2 | August 27, 2018 01:15 | August 27, 2018 01:30 | 15m | 3,946 | 987 |
| 3 | July 15, 2018 19:00 | July 15, 2018 20:15 | 1h 15m | 3,927 | 4,612 |
| 4 | August 22, 2018 21:15 | August 23, 2018 04:00 | 6h 45m | 2,437 | 2,599 |
| 5 | October 7, 2018 22:45 | October 8, 2018 06:00 | 7h 15m | 1,640 | 599 |
| 6 | December 10, 2018 20:45 | December 11, 2018 01:00 | 4h 15m | 1,331 | 380 |
| 7 | September 1, 2018 16:15 | September 2, 2018 00:15 | 8h | 1,304 | 2,582 |
| 8 | September 10, 2018 02:00 | September 10, 2018 04:45 | 2h 45m | 1,092 | 1,339 |
| 9 | February 8, 2018 00:45 | February 8, 2018 03:00 | 2h 15m | 883 | 578 |
| 10 | May 31, 2018 16:15 | May 31, 2018 22:45 | 6h 30m | 468 | 268 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 33 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Otero 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 6.0 hrs | - | 3.4 hrs | - |
| 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 |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.8 hrs | 2.30 | 2.3 hrs | 1.19 |
| 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 ÷ 18,452 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. Otero County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Otero 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/otero-county