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2019 Otero County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Otero County, NM went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 62K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 1527th 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 Otero 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 30, 2019 17:45 | June 30, 2019 23:15 | 5h 30m | 7,933 | 14K |
| 2 | January 20, 2019 09:00 | January 20, 2019 12:00 | 3h | 6,348 | 19K |
| 3 | February 23, 2019 06:00 | February 23, 2019 09:30 | 3h 30m | 3,927 | 4,911 |
| 4 | July 28, 2019 22:15 | July 29, 2019 03:45 | 5h 30m | 3,131 | 1,436 |
| 5 | February 5, 2019 21:00 | February 5, 2019 21:30 | 30m | 2,398 | 1,199 |
| 6 | July 17, 2019 16:15 | July 17, 2019 18:45 | 2h 30m | 2,247 | 1,163 |
| 7 | June 28, 2019 02:30 | June 28, 2019 08:30 | 6h | 1,297 | 2,168 |
| 8 | June 10, 2019 23:00 | June 11, 2019 02:00 | 3h | 1,004 | 640 |
| 9 | August 31, 2019 21:00 | September 1, 2019 00:15 | 3h 15m | 1,003 | 892 |
| 10 | September 8, 2019 22:30 | September 8, 2019 23:30 | 1h | 893 | 893 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 36 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Otero 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 6.0 hrs | - | 3.4 hrs | - |
| Public Service Co of NM | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 0.98 | 1.8 hrs | 0.98 |
| El Paso Electric Co | 2018 | 67 min | 0.84 | 67 min | 0.84 |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.8 hrs | 2.30 | 2.3 hrs | 1.19 |
| 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 ÷ 18,452 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. Otero County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Otero 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/otero-county