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2019 Socorro County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Socorro County, NM went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 6,010 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2637th 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 Socorro 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 24, 2019 13:00 | April 24, 2019 15:45 | 2h 45m | 259 | 606 |
| 2 | May 26, 2019 20:00 | May 27, 2019 16:15 | 20h 15m | 215 | 272 |
| 3 | July 27, 2019 01:00 | July 27, 2019 10:15 | 9h 15m | 143 | 412 |
| 4 | October 24, 2019 06:15 | October 24, 2019 10:15 | 4h | 131 | 500 |
| 5 | March 13, 2019 22:45 | March 14, 2019 07:00 | 8h 15m | 111 | 889 |
| 6 | June 27, 2019 11:00 | June 27, 2019 12:15 | 1h 15m | 111 | 29 |
| 7 | April 26, 2019 20:30 | April 26, 2019 23:00 | 2h 30m | 106 | 218 |
| 8 | March 13, 2019 14:15 | March 13, 2019 21:15 | 7h | 57 | 266 |
| 9 | September 10, 2019 22:15 | September 11, 2019 02:45 | 4h 30m | 53 | 223 |
| 10 | October 24, 2019 11:15 | October 24, 2019 13:15 | 2h | 36 | 62 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 7 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 Socorro 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sierra 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 ÷ 9,451 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. Socorro County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Socorro 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/socorro-county