County annual report · FIPS 35043
2020 Sandoval County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Sandoval County, NM went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 213K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.4 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 1726th 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 Sandoval 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 21:45 | August 25, 2020 20:45 | 23h | 6,906 | 10K |
| 2 | August 2, 2020 00:15 | August 2, 2020 15:30 | 15h 15m | 3,542 | 4,829 |
| 3 | May 29, 2020 14:30 | May 29, 2020 21:30 | 7h | 3,522 | 2,203 |
| 4 | October 26, 2020 11:15 | October 29, 2020 07:15 | 2d 20h | 2,831 | 38K |
| 5 | April 27, 2020 16:15 | April 27, 2020 23:15 | 7h | 2,557 | 648 |
| 6 | January 17, 2020 01:30 | January 18, 2020 01:15 | 23h 45m | 2,217 | 4,956 |
| 7 | January 28, 2020 20:30 | January 29, 2020 12:00 | 15h 30m | 2,186 | 2,827 |
| 8 | December 11, 2020 00:30 | December 12, 2020 03:30 | 1d 3h | 2,100 | 17K |
| 9 | August 2, 2020 21:45 | August 5, 2020 21:15 | 2d 23h | 1,451 | 4,367 |
| 10 | October 19, 2020 17:15 | October 22, 2020 23:45 | 3d 6h | 1,147 | 31K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 73 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Sandoval 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 |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Continental Divide El 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 ÷ 60,725 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. Sandoval County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sandoval 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/sandoval-county