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2020 Hidalgo County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Hidalgo County, NM went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 748 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.4 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2882nd 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 Hidalgo 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 21, 2020 23:00 | August 22, 2020 01:15 | 2h 15m | 77 | 160 |
| 2 | August 18, 2020 00:45 | August 18, 2020 03:15 | 2h 30m | 74 | 185 |
| 3 | September 9, 2020 21:15 | September 9, 2020 23:45 | 2h 30m | 68 | 153 |
| 4 | July 15, 2020 00:15 | July 15, 2020 02:45 | 2h 30m | 56 | 140 |
| 5 | June 11, 2020 02:45 | June 11, 2020 05:30 | 2h 45m | 18 | 46 |
| 6 | June 11, 2020 20:15 | June 11, 2020 20:45 | 30m | 2 | 1 |
| 7 | August 16, 2020 14:45 | August 16, 2020 19:00 | 4h 15m | 2 | 8 |
| 8 | January 16, 2020 17:45 | January 16, 2020 20:00 | 2h 15m | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | January 24, 2020 17:15 | January 24, 2020 17:30 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | March 30, 2020 14:00 | March 30, 2020 22:00 | 8h | 1 | 8 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 0 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 Hidalgo 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 |
| Columbus Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duncan Valley Elec 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 ÷ 2,651 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. Hidalgo County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hidalgo 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/hidalgo-county