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2018 Socorro County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Socorro County, NM went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 594 customer-hours (New Mexico average 1.8 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 26 New Mexico counties and 2683rd 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 Socorro 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 | May 21, 2018 22:45 | May 22, 2018 00:45 | 2h | 57 | 114 |
| 2 | March 16, 2018 07:15 | March 16, 2018 07:45 | 30m | 46 | 23 |
| 3 | February 20, 2018 09:00 | February 20, 2018 11:00 | 2h | 32 | 10 |
| 4 | April 1, 2018 07:30 | April 1, 2018 17:45 | 10h 15m | 22 | 217 |
| 5 | October 31, 2018 16:15 | October 31, 2018 19:00 | 2h 45m | 13 | 36 |
| 6 | January 24, 2018 13:15 | January 24, 2018 15:15 | 2h | 11 | 22 |
| 7 | January 11, 2018 19:00 | January 11, 2018 21:00 | 2h | 3 | 6 |
| 8 | April 21, 2018 19:15 | April 21, 2018 21:15 | 2h | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | September 26, 2018 17:30 | September 26, 2018 21:00 | 3h 30m | 2 | 5 |
| 10 | October 10, 2018 18:45 | October 10, 2018 23:15 | 4h 30m | 2 | 6 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 0 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Socorro 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sierra 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 ÷ 9,451 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. Socorro County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Socorro 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/socorro-county