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2021 Bernalillo County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Bernalillo County, NM went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 569K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2436th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bernalillo County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 24, 2021 14:15 | May 25, 2021 06:00 | 15h 45m | 18,029 | 34K |
| 2 | June 26, 2021 11:45 | June 27, 2021 10:30 | 22h 45m | 17,523 | 51K |
| 3 | April 13, 2021 10:00 | April 14, 2021 01:15 | 15h 15m | 14,163 | 34K |
| 4 | July 23, 2021 15:30 | July 25, 2021 10:00 | 1d 18h | 9,871 | 35K |
| 5 | March 24, 2021 07:15 | March 26, 2021 01:30 | 1d 18h | 8,067 | 47K |
| 6 | December 15, 2021 13:15 | December 16, 2021 02:00 | 12h 45m | 7,704 | 2,755 |
| 7 | July 2, 2021 13:15 | July 5, 2021 03:00 | 2d 13h | 6,462 | 25K |
| 8 | July 31, 2021 14:00 | August 1, 2021 05:15 | 15h 15m | 5,811 | 17K |
| 9 | November 10, 2021 15:45 | November 10, 2021 23:45 | 8h | 5,557 | 1,644 |
| 10 | January 8, 2021 15:15 | January 8, 2021 19:15 | 4h | 5,087 | 1,341 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 170 reached 100+ customers, 50 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Bernalillo County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 1.6 hrs | 0.82 | 86 min | 0.74 |
| Central New Mexico El 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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 364,403 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. Bernalillo County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bernalillo County, NM annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/new-mexico/bernalillo-county