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2019 Union County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Union County, NM went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 945 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 1939th 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 Union 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 | August 9, 2019 03:15 | August 9, 2019 03:30 | 15m | 1,437 | 359 |
| 2 | August 8, 2019 23:15 | August 8, 2019 23:45 | 30m | 920 | 460 |
| 3 | July 21, 2019 03:30 | July 21, 2019 04:30 | 1h | 9 | 7 |
| 4 | August 2, 2019 22:30 | August 3, 2019 04:15 | 5h 45m | 8 | 44 |
| 5 | April 21, 2019 00:45 | April 21, 2019 02:15 | 1h 30m | 7 | 11 |
| 6 | June 28, 2019 00:45 | June 28, 2019 02:00 | 1h 15m | 7 | 9 |
| 7 | July 27, 2019 13:30 | July 27, 2019 16:30 | 3h | 5 | 11 |
| 8 | August 23, 2019 23:30 | August 24, 2019 01:15 | 1h 45m | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | August 30, 2019 06:45 | August 30, 2019 07:00 | 15m | 2 | 1 |
| 10 | March 5, 2019 21:00 | March 5, 2019 21:45 | 45m | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 2 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Union 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 |
| Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (OK) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southwestern Electric Coop Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Springer 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 ÷ 418 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county