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2020 Lea County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lea County, NM went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 79K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.4 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2387th 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 Lea 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 | July 14, 2020 20:45 | July 15, 2020 03:30 | 6h 45m | 3,122 | 6,099 |
| 2 | July 8, 2020 12:45 | July 9, 2020 10:45 | 22h | 2,470 | 1,588 |
| 3 | August 5, 2020 15:30 | August 9, 2020 23:45 | 4d 8h | 2,294 | 6,452 |
| 4 | October 27, 2020 00:00 | October 29, 2020 02:30 | 2d 2h | 1,960 | 5,440 |
| 5 | August 12, 2020 03:30 | August 13, 2020 01:30 | 22h | 1,645 | 6,421 |
| 6 | June 17, 2020 18:45 | June 18, 2020 06:45 | 12h | 918 | 1,535 |
| 7 | July 17, 2020 16:00 | July 18, 2020 02:00 | 10h | 829 | 1,522 |
| 8 | October 29, 2020 04:00 | October 29, 2020 13:30 | 9h 30m | 661 | 898 |
| 9 | July 31, 2020 07:00 | August 2, 2020 04:45 | 1d 21h | 594 | 3,342 |
| 10 | October 7, 2020 13:30 | October 7, 2020 15:00 | 1h 30m | 527 | 743 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 60 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Lea 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Public Service Co | 2020 | 5.5 hrs | 1.25 | 1.7 hrs | 0.92 |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2020 | 4.1 hrs | 1.93 | 3.0 hrs | 1.69 |
| Lea County 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 82% of New Mexico's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 46,964 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. Lea County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lea 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/lea-county