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2018 Valencia County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Valencia County, NM went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 210K customer-hours (New Mexico average 1.8 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 26 New Mexico counties and 925th 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 Valencia 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 | December 27, 2018 01:00 | December 29, 2018 23:30 | 2d 22h | 10,854 | 53K |
| 2 | March 18, 2018 19:15 | March 20, 2018 12:45 | 1d 17h | 6,621 | 25K |
| 3 | April 17, 2018 18:15 | April 18, 2018 03:15 | 9h | 5,572 | 13K |
| 4 | April 12, 2018 18:45 | April 13, 2018 14:45 | 20h | 5,472 | 9,189 |
| 5 | May 2, 2018 21:00 | May 3, 2018 08:00 | 11h | 4,685 | 2,940 |
| 6 | March 23, 2018 14:15 | March 23, 2018 17:45 | 3h 30m | 4,114 | 11K |
| 7 | June 6, 2018 21:00 | June 7, 2018 11:45 | 14h 45m | 3,468 | 3,406 |
| 8 | December 6, 2018 21:45 | December 13, 2018 19:30 | 6d 21h | 3,306 | 3,411 |
| 9 | July 23, 2018 23:45 | July 24, 2018 22:45 | 23h | 2,862 | 3,662 |
| 10 | July 26, 2018 18:15 | July 27, 2018 08:00 | 13h 45m | 2,321 | 4,617 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 58 reached 100+ customers, 20 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Valencia 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Continental Divide El 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 ÷ 35,686 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. Valencia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Valencia 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/valencia-county