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2019 Quay County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Quay County, NM went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 2,862 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2643rd 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 Quay 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 | February 6, 2019 21:00 | February 6, 2019 22:00 | 1h | 292 | 292 |
| 2 | April 15, 2019 14:30 | April 15, 2019 21:15 | 6h 45m | 185 | 1,023 |
| 3 | July 17, 2019 00:30 | July 17, 2019 02:00 | 1h 30m | 176 | 177 |
| 4 | April 16, 2019 14:30 | April 16, 2019 19:00 | 4h 30m | 78 | 329 |
| 5 | August 13, 2019 20:15 | August 13, 2019 22:00 | 1h 45m | 50 | 30 |
| 6 | January 30, 2019 23:30 | January 31, 2019 00:30 | 1h | 48 | 25 |
| 7 | June 23, 2019 18:15 | June 23, 2019 19:15 | 1h | 26 | 26 |
| 8 | July 20, 2019 15:30 | July 20, 2019 16:45 | 1h 15m | 24 | 26 |
| 9 | October 25, 2019 16:15 | October 25, 2019 17:30 | 1h 15m | 22 | 22 |
| 10 | March 25, 2019 14:45 | March 25, 2019 18:00 | 3h 15m | 20 | 65 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 3 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Quay 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 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southwestern 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 ÷ 4,683 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. Quay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Quay 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/quay-county