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2021 Hidalgo County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Hidalgo County, NM went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 3,064 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2601st 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 Hidalgo 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 | August 3, 2021 00:00 | August 3, 2021 03:00 | 3h | 221 | 508 |
| 2 | July 29, 2021 02:30 | July 29, 2021 04:30 | 2h | 202 | 235 |
| 3 | December 21, 2021 09:00 | December 21, 2021 12:00 | 3h | 201 | 603 |
| 4 | March 26, 2021 21:15 | March 27, 2021 05:00 | 7h 45m | 88 | 569 |
| 5 | October 6, 2021 03:45 | October 6, 2021 06:15 | 2h 30m | 82 | 158 |
| 6 | May 31, 2021 21:45 | June 1, 2021 00:15 | 2h 30m | 72 | 180 |
| 7 | August 5, 2021 03:30 | August 5, 2021 10:30 | 7h | 58 | 158 |
| 8 | July 30, 2021 02:15 | July 30, 2021 06:15 | 4h | 56 | 105 |
| 9 | February 17, 2021 19:00 | February 17, 2021 19:30 | 30m | 39 | 10 |
| 10 | July 6, 2021 01:30 | July 6, 2021 03:00 | 1h 30m | 29 | 36 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 3 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 Hidalgo 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 |
| Columbus Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duncan Valley Elec 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 ÷ 2,651 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. Hidalgo County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hidalgo 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/hidalgo-county