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2019 Lincoln County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lincoln County, NM went without power for an average of 13.0 hours, a total of 117K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 411th 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 Lincoln 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 | July 17, 2019 14:15 | July 17, 2019 20:30 | 6h 15m | 11,431 | 6,302 |
| 2 | January 20, 2019 08:45 | January 21, 2019 02:45 | 18h | 7,887 | 57K |
| 3 | June 30, 2019 18:30 | June 30, 2019 21:15 | 2h 45m | 5,206 | 7,945 |
| 4 | March 28, 2019 04:15 | March 28, 2019 05:00 | 45m | 3,474 | 2,278 |
| 5 | July 11, 2019 19:45 | July 11, 2019 21:00 | 1h 15m | 3,463 | 998 |
| 6 | February 3, 2019 21:00 | February 3, 2019 22:45 | 1h 45m | 2,758 | 4,827 |
| 7 | July 9, 2019 20:45 | July 9, 2019 21:30 | 45m | 2,757 | 1,871 |
| 8 | September 11, 2019 05:45 | September 11, 2019 08:30 | 2h 45m | 2,748 | 2,750 |
| 9 | May 22, 2019 21:30 | May 24, 2019 00:15 | 1d 2h | 2,290 | 621 |
| 10 | February 21, 2019 16:00 | February 21, 2019 19:15 | 3h 15m | 1,798 | 458 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 26 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Lincoln 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 |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Socorro Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Otero County 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 81% of New Mexico's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,967 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county