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2020 McKinley County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in McKinley County, NM went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 3,521 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.4 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2909th 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 McKinley 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 | September 3, 2020 23:45 | September 4, 2020 05:15 | 5h 30m | 126 | 217 |
| 2 | February 23, 2020 04:30 | February 23, 2020 09:00 | 4h 30m | 124 | 466 |
| 3 | October 26, 2020 04:15 | October 26, 2020 07:15 | 3h | 89 | 267 |
| 4 | November 8, 2020 15:15 | November 8, 2020 23:30 | 8h 15m | 89 | 249 |
| 5 | November 8, 2020 01:45 | November 8, 2020 02:00 | 15m | 88 | 22 |
| 6 | November 8, 2020 02:45 | November 8, 2020 03:15 | 30m | 88 | 44 |
| 7 | November 8, 2020 07:45 | November 8, 2020 11:00 | 3h 15m | 88 | 176 |
| 8 | July 29, 2020 03:15 | July 29, 2020 04:30 | 1h 15m | 87 | 87 |
| 9 | July 29, 2020 05:15 | July 29, 2020 05:45 | 30m | 87 | 44 |
| 10 | September 9, 2020 07:30 | September 9, 2020 09:30 | 2h | 87 | 87 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 2 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 McKinley 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 |
| Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc | 2020 | 9.0 hrs | 2.79 | 8.1 hrs | 2.74 |
| Navajo Tribal Utility Authority | - | - | - | - | - |
| Continental Divide El Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gallup - (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 ÷ 18,739 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. McKinley County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McKinley 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/mckinley-county