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2019 Hidalgo County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Hidalgo County, NM went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 5,115 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2071st 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 Hidalgo 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 | April 10, 2019 21:30 | April 11, 2019 02:30 | 5h | 1,102 | 2,347 |
| 2 | April 17, 2019 06:15 | April 17, 2019 16:00 | 9h 45m | 1,102 | 425 |
| 3 | May 30, 2019 18:15 | May 30, 2019 20:30 | 2h 15m | 1,097 | 359 |
| 4 | November 6, 2019 23:15 | November 7, 2019 04:00 | 4h 45m | 278 | 449 |
| 5 | March 16, 2019 15:00 | March 16, 2019 20:45 | 5h 45m | 213 | 739 |
| 6 | March 14, 2019 00:30 | March 14, 2019 01:30 | 1h | 143 | 52 |
| 7 | December 11, 2019 07:00 | December 11, 2019 11:30 | 4h 30m | 101 | 137 |
| 8 | August 2, 2019 01:15 | August 2, 2019 03:15 | 2h | 74 | 93 |
| 9 | April 3, 2019 20:45 | April 3, 2019 22:00 | 1h 15m | 69 | 18 |
| 10 | July 27, 2019 00:00 | July 27, 2019 02:00 | 2h | 59 | 116 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 7 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Hidalgo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Co of NM | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 0.98 | 1.8 hrs | 0.98 |
| Columbus Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duncan Valley Elec 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 81% of New Mexico's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,651 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. Hidalgo County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hidalgo 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/hidalgo-county