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2019 Lea County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lea County, NM went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 120K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 1815th 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 Lea 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 | January 22, 2019 15:15 | January 22, 2019 23:15 | 8h | 2,532 | 2,384 |
| 2 | March 12, 2019 04:45 | March 19, 2019 02:00 | 6d 21h | 1,773 | 33K |
| 3 | September 28, 2019 05:00 | October 4, 2019 22:30 | 6d 17h | 1,569 | 17K |
| 4 | March 3, 2019 07:45 | March 3, 2019 10:30 | 2h 45m | 1,372 | 3,437 |
| 5 | May 12, 2019 16:15 | May 14, 2019 04:45 | 1d 12h | 1,004 | 2,637 |
| 6 | June 4, 2019 13:45 | June 7, 2019 04:30 | 2d 14h | 977 | 6,021 |
| 7 | April 1, 2019 04:15 | April 1, 2019 11:15 | 7h | 967 | 267 |
| 8 | September 8, 2019 21:45 | September 10, 2019 04:00 | 1d 6h | 897 | 3,443 |
| 9 | July 4, 2019 00:45 | July 6, 2019 05:15 | 2d 4h | 881 | 7,904 |
| 10 | June 3, 2019 03:15 | June 4, 2019 12:45 | 1d 9h | 862 | 3,087 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 67 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Lea 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 |
| 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 ÷ 46,964 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. Lea County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lea 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/lea-county