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2020 Union County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Union County, NM went without power for an average of 21.3 hours, a total of 8,889 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.4 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 402nd 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 Union 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 | June 3, 2020 23:30 | June 4, 2020 04:00 | 4h 30m | 1,449 | 6,431 |
| 2 | June 4, 2020 15:30 | June 4, 2020 16:30 | 1h | 1,448 | 1,091 |
| 3 | February 25, 2020 19:30 | February 25, 2020 21:45 | 2h 15m | 517 | 518 |
| 4 | June 9, 2020 17:00 | June 9, 2020 18:30 | 1h 30m | 343 | 428 |
| 5 | June 11, 2020 20:45 | June 11, 2020 23:45 | 3h | 180 | 235 |
| 6 | March 16, 2020 17:00 | March 16, 2020 19:45 | 2h 45m | 173 | 96 |
| 7 | December 5, 2020 02:30 | December 5, 2020 03:30 | 1h | 9 | 7 |
| 8 | June 15, 2020 19:15 | June 15, 2020 22:15 | 3h | 8 | 24 |
| 9 | May 15, 2020 20:30 | May 15, 2020 21:00 | 30m | 7 | 4 |
| 10 | June 16, 2020 18:15 | June 16, 2020 20:30 | 2h 15m | 7 | 16 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 6 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 Union 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 |
| Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (OK) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southwestern Electric Coop Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Springer 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 ÷ 418 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county