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2020 Torrance County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Torrance County, NM went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.4 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 1386th 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 Torrance 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 | April 30, 2020 04:15 | April 30, 2020 04:45 | 30m | 1,849 | 463 |
| 2 | June 5, 2020 23:00 | June 9, 2020 15:30 | 3d 16h | 1,842 | 2,752 |
| 3 | September 5, 2020 21:30 | September 6, 2020 00:15 | 2h 45m | 646 | 375 |
| 4 | September 8, 2020 21:00 | September 14, 2020 18:00 | 5d 21h | 645 | 1,643 |
| 5 | March 18, 2020 15:15 | March 18, 2020 22:30 | 7h 15m | 587 | 556 |
| 6 | November 1, 2020 07:00 | November 1, 2020 23:15 | 16h 15m | 479 | 6,796 |
| 7 | June 16, 2020 14:30 | June 16, 2020 18:15 | 3h 45m | 469 | 255 |
| 8 | June 29, 2020 21:15 | July 1, 2020 13:30 | 1d 16h | 420 | 345 |
| 9 | December 13, 2020 06:00 | December 13, 2020 18:00 | 12h | 331 | 2,159 |
| 10 | March 17, 2020 21:45 | March 17, 2020 22:30 | 45m | 291 | 218 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 25 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Torrance 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,851 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. Torrance County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Torrance 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/torrance-county