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2020 Santa Fe County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Santa Fe County, NM went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 203K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.4 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2024th 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 Santa Fe 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 | October 8, 2020 01:45 | November 28, 2020 18:30 | 51d 16h | 16,042 | 36K |
| 2 | May 26, 2020 13:15 | May 26, 2020 23:30 | 10h 15m | 8,268 | 4,013 |
| 3 | August 25, 2020 21:30 | October 4, 2020 22:30 | 40d 1h | 4,721 | 52K |
| 4 | February 7, 2020 16:00 | February 7, 2020 17:45 | 1h 45m | 3,622 | 3,718 |
| 5 | June 5, 2020 23:00 | June 11, 2020 22:15 | 5d 23h | 1,805 | 4,707 |
| 6 | April 30, 2020 04:15 | April 30, 2020 04:45 | 30m | 1,792 | 449 |
| 7 | August 18, 2020 19:15 | August 25, 2020 12:45 | 6d 17h | 1,471 | 6,372 |
| 8 | May 11, 2020 14:30 | May 11, 2020 20:00 | 5h 30m | 1,229 | 2,883 |
| 9 | April 21, 2020 06:45 | April 21, 2020 09:30 | 2h 45m | 1,224 | 2,357 |
| 10 | July 7, 2020 12:30 | July 8, 2020 17:45 | 1d 5h | 1,078 | 3,179 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 77 reached 100+ customers, 12 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Santa Fe 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 |
| Mora-San Miguel Elec Coop | 2018 | 7.2 hrs | - | 6.8 hrs | - |
| Central New Mexico 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 ÷ 78,870 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. Santa Fe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Santa Fe 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/santa-fe-county