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2020 Socorro County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Socorro County, NM went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 1,781 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.4 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2908th 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 Socorro 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 | December 13, 2020 08:30 | December 13, 2020 14:30 | 6h | 142 | 251 |
| 2 | February 12, 2020 22:30 | February 13, 2020 04:45 | 6h 15m | 69 | 415 |
| 3 | July 27, 2020 03:30 | July 27, 2020 07:15 | 3h 45m | 37 | 121 |
| 4 | July 31, 2020 15:00 | July 31, 2020 15:30 | 30m | 34 | 9 |
| 5 | November 1, 2020 00:45 | November 1, 2020 02:45 | 2h | 34 | 68 |
| 6 | July 12, 2020 21:45 | July 12, 2020 23:30 | 1h 45m | 32 | 49 |
| 7 | July 10, 2020 15:15 | July 10, 2020 16:45 | 1h 30m | 26 | 22 |
| 8 | January 17, 2020 17:00 | January 17, 2020 20:00 | 3h | 24 | 66 |
| 9 | March 18, 2020 21:45 | March 18, 2020 22:00 | 15m | 24 | 6 |
| 10 | June 16, 2020 01:15 | June 16, 2020 04:45 | 3h 30m | 19 | 32 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 1 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 Socorro 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 |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Socorro Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Otero County Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sierra Electric 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 ÷ 9,451 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. Socorro County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Socorro 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/socorro-county