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2021 Lincoln County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lincoln County, NM went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 1361st 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 Lincoln 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 | October 9, 2021 23:00 | October 10, 2021 00:30 | 1h 30m | 3,898 | 5,847 |
| 2 | March 24, 2021 10:30 | March 24, 2021 18:45 | 8h 15m | 3,788 | 4,112 |
| 3 | December 7, 2021 21:00 | December 7, 2021 21:15 | 15m | 2,744 | 686 |
| 4 | March 13, 2021 17:45 | March 13, 2021 19:00 | 1h 15m | 1,775 | 2,219 |
| 5 | October 12, 2021 15:15 | October 13, 2021 18:15 | 1d 3h | 556 | 1,670 |
| 6 | May 20, 2021 13:45 | May 21, 2021 02:15 | 12h 30m | 509 | 4,895 |
| 7 | September 15, 2021 22:30 | September 16, 2021 00:15 | 1h 45m | 307 | 308 |
| 8 | July 3, 2021 20:15 | July 4, 2021 01:00 | 4h 45m | 288 | 442 |
| 9 | August 30, 2021 06:00 | August 30, 2021 18:00 | 12h | 282 | 2,123 |
| 10 | July 15, 2021 20:30 | July 15, 2021 21:00 | 30m | 139 | 35 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 13 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Lincoln 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Socorro Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Otero County 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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,967 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county