County annual report · FIPS 35037
2018 Quay County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Quay County, NM went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 5,135 customer-hours (New Mexico average 1.8 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 26 New Mexico counties and 2276th 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 Quay 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 20:45 | April 12, 2018 21:45 | 1h | 3,425 | 2,752 |
| 2 | June 13, 2018 00:15 | June 13, 2018 02:30 | 2h 15m | 1,989 | 1,041 |
| 3 | February 7, 2018 13:45 | February 7, 2018 15:15 | 1h 30m | 321 | 167 |
| 4 | November 24, 2018 18:30 | November 24, 2018 20:15 | 1h 45m | 52 | 76 |
| 5 | March 18, 2018 22:00 | March 18, 2018 22:30 | 30m | 40 | 10 |
| 6 | August 16, 2018 16:15 | August 17, 2018 02:00 | 9h 45m | 36 | 329 |
| 7 | October 8, 2018 03:30 | October 8, 2018 09:15 | 5h 45m | 36 | 59 |
| 8 | August 16, 2018 04:30 | August 16, 2018 05:45 | 1h 15m | 32 | 40 |
| 9 | August 4, 2018 17:30 | August 4, 2018 23:45 | 6h 15m | 31 | 187 |
| 10 | June 24, 2018 00:45 | June 24, 2018 03:45 | 3h | 30 | 75 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 3 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Quay 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 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southwestern 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 ÷ 4,683 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. Quay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Quay 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/quay-county