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2020 Doña Ana County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Doña Ana County, NM went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 223K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.4 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2174th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Doña Ana County, 2020
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 24, 2020 00:30 | August 25, 2020 01:45 | 1d 1h | 7,813 | 50K |
| 2 | July 9, 2020 21:30 | July 10, 2020 05:45 | 8h 15m | 4,879 | 3,820 |
| 3 | July 20, 2020 22:00 | July 21, 2020 09:00 | 11h | 4,740 | 7,854 |
| 4 | December 30, 2020 16:00 | December 30, 2020 16:15 | 15m | 4,686 | 1,172 |
| 5 | June 4, 2020 12:00 | June 5, 2020 05:45 | 17h 45m | 4,410 | 11K |
| 6 | April 25, 2020 09:15 | April 25, 2020 11:30 | 2h 15m | 4,252 | 9,567 |
| 7 | August 1, 2020 20:15 | August 1, 2020 22:15 | 2h | 4,081 | 7,063 |
| 8 | July 25, 2020 01:00 | July 25, 2020 09:15 | 8h 15m | 3,927 | 10K |
| 9 | August 13, 2020 11:00 | August 13, 2020 22:15 | 11h 15m | 3,884 | 6,016 |
| 10 | November 18, 2020 16:00 | November 18, 2020 21:15 | 5h 15m | 3,749 | 943 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 86 reached 100+ customers, 31 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 Doña Ana County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 2.1 hrs | 0.78 | 89 min | 0.71 |
| El Paso Electric Co | 2020 | 1.6 hrs | 0.90 | 1.6 hrs | 0.90 |
| Columbus 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 82% of New Mexico's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 101,930 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. Doña Ana County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Doña Ana County, NM annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/new-mexico/dona-ana-county