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2020 Valencia County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Valencia County, NM went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 79K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.4 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2159th 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 Valencia 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 | November 16, 2020 14:00 | November 16, 2020 20:45 | 6h 45m | 1,837 | 1,426 |
| 2 | December 5, 2020 15:45 | December 5, 2020 20:15 | 4h 30m | 1,727 | 927 |
| 3 | July 13, 2020 18:00 | July 14, 2020 12:45 | 18h 45m | 1,609 | 1,679 |
| 4 | July 31, 2020 21:30 | August 1, 2020 05:00 | 7h 30m | 1,478 | 4,673 |
| 5 | February 11, 2020 06:30 | February 11, 2020 23:15 | 16h 45m | 1,344 | 1,315 |
| 6 | July 23, 2020 12:30 | July 26, 2020 11:00 | 2d 22h | 1,266 | 13K |
| 7 | August 21, 2020 00:15 | August 21, 2020 20:00 | 19h 45m | 1,006 | 867 |
| 8 | August 2, 2020 23:30 | August 3, 2020 07:00 | 7h 30m | 999 | 909 |
| 9 | November 27, 2020 01:45 | November 27, 2020 03:45 | 2h | 681 | 856 |
| 10 | February 28, 2020 23:15 | February 29, 2020 04:45 | 5h 30m | 648 | 2,731 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 60 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Valencia 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 35,686 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. Valencia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Valencia 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/valencia-county