County annual report · FIPS 35015
2019 Eddy County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Eddy County, NM went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 103K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 1427th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Eddy County, 2019
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 19, 2019 00:00 | June 19, 2019 23:30 | 23h 30m | 4,865 | 8,197 |
| 2 | October 26, 2019 14:00 | October 26, 2019 17:45 | 3h 45m | 4,579 | 5,456 |
| 3 | April 23, 2019 02:15 | April 24, 2019 01:45 | 23h 30m | 3,932 | 9,770 |
| 4 | June 14, 2019 18:00 | June 15, 2019 19:00 | 1d 1h | 3,374 | 4,247 |
| 5 | July 7, 2019 02:00 | July 8, 2019 02:15 | 1d | 2,165 | 5,172 |
| 6 | October 23, 2019 18:45 | October 24, 2019 04:00 | 9h 15m | 2,124 | 1,867 |
| 7 | November 27, 2019 07:45 | November 27, 2019 12:00 | 4h 15m | 1,366 | 1,525 |
| 8 | August 26, 2019 12:45 | August 27, 2019 04:30 | 15h 45m | 1,294 | 4,712 |
| 9 | November 26, 2019 14:00 | November 27, 2019 06:30 | 16h 30m | 994 | 2,237 |
| 10 | October 24, 2019 17:30 | October 25, 2019 05:00 | 11h 30m | 993 | 2,174 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 60 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 Eddy County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 6.0 hrs | - | 3.4 hrs | - |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.8 hrs | 2.30 | 2.3 hrs | 1.19 |
| Lea County 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 81% of New Mexico's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 28,539 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. Eddy County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Eddy County, NM annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/new-mexico/eddy-county